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DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death

DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death



Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal casesMore 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. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/02/errol-graham-disabled-man-death-review

Author : Ben Quinn

Publish date : 2025-01-02 07:00:37

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