Originally posted on Campaign4Change:
The DWP is continuing its protracted legal fight to stop publication of four reports on the Universal Credit programme.
The department this week asked the upper tribunal for leave to appeal a decision of the first-tier information tribunal that the four reports be published. The first-tier tribunal had refused the DWP leave to appeal.
As expected, the DWP is doing everything possible within the FOI Act to stop the UC programme reports being published. This is despite MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee saying there is a “lack of transparency” on the Universal Credit programme.
The reports in question are more than two years old but they would show how much ministers knew about UC programme problems at a time when the DWP was issuing regular press releases claiming the scheme was on time and to budget.
By law the DWP has to deal with every FOI…
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