Manual WhatDoTheyKnow Transparency Report for 2023

[HelenWDTK]

A WhatDoTheyKnow Transparency Report was produced in 2021 and 2022.

This ticket is for a 2023 version.

[HelenWDTK]

Noting #1535

[RichardTaylor]

I'd like to more clearly separate the substantive takedowns from others; substantive being those involving the core substance of a FOI request/response.

We might want to have various levels of "substantive"

• removing just one or two bits of personal data from a release;
• when we have to take a significant element of a request/response down (which is very rare)
• when largely non-FOI correspondence includes, often incidentally / accidentally some element which could be seen as FOI

We know that we go to great lengths to avoid removing FOI requests/responses from public view, and ideally that would be reflected in the report. To-date we've not really been collecting data on takedowns that really enables us to show how we've been able to preserve the archive of requests/responses.

Preserving the archive is one aim, but we also want to do the right thing. Not every substantive takedown is bad. Perhaps if the report did drill down to a handful of substantive cases, we could write a couple of sentences on each one.

Edit: "reflected in report" > "reflected in the report"

[RichardTaylor]

if the report did drill down to a handful of substantive cases, we could write a couple of sentences on each one.

Ideally we'd already have a blog on each one.