{"id":3970,"date":"2010-10-25T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2010-10-25T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T08:09:12","slug":"transparency-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"Transparency in government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m visiting Oxford to address a Chinese delegation from Tianjin, a city of 12 million, not far from Beijing. The subject of my presentation is &#8220;Government Communications In The UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now on this blog I&#8217;ve been critical of the Coalition Government&#8217;s plans for cutting pubic expenditure, but I have to give the new government credit for proposing much more transparency in relation to information on expenditure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All local government expenditure \tover \u00a3500 will have to be published on the web after January \t2011<\/li>\n<li>All national government \texpenditure over \u00a325,000 will have to be published on the web \tafter November 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/news\/statements-and-articles\/2010\/05\/letter-to-government-departments-on-opening-up-data-51204\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m visiting Oxford to address a Chinese delegation from Tianjin, a city of 12 million, not far from Beijing. The subject of my presentation is &#8220;Government Communications In The UK&#8221;. Now on this blog I&#8217;ve been critical of the Coalition Government&#8217;s plans for cutting pubic expenditure, but I have to give the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}