The Act is intended to promote a culture of openness and accountability amongst public sector bodies by providing people with rights of access to the information held by them. It is expected that these rights will facilitate better public understanding of how public authorities carry out their duties, why they make the decisions they do and how they spend public money.

We fully embrace the spirit of the Act and will do all that we can to promote this culture of openness and accountability. Under the Act, we have two main obligations:

  • We must adopt and maintain a publication scheme (see below), setting out details of information we will routinely make available, how the information can be obtained and whether there is any charge for it.
  • We must comply with requests for the information that we hold unless an exemption from disclosure applies. We will normally have a maximum of twenty working days to respond to the request, however there are circumstances when this time limit can be extended.

View our Freedom of Information Act – Publication Scheme page

How did Cranfield decide what information to publish?

What information won’t the University publish?

Will the University disclose information it holds about me or other individuals?

Do I have to pay for the documents I want to see?

How do I get access to information that was created before the Publication Scheme started?

How do I make a Freedom of Information request?

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