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DWP spent £50,000 in bid to halt release of safeguarding review
The Guardian
|January 02, 2025
More than £50,000 of taxpayers' money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.
The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
It included spending by the Home Office of £30,000 to block a request by the Guardian for the total cost to the public of protecting the royal family.
The figures were revealed after requests by the Democracy for Sale newsletter, which sought details of spending under the last government in attempts to prevent the release of information.
Some of the spending that was uncovered related to an attempt by a campaigner at the Child Poverty Action Group charity to obtain the results of a review by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) into its safeguarding procedures.
This story is from the January 02, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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