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  Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill - Constituents letters
  
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  <p>The Majority kept the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/039/07039.i-i.html#NewClause">proposal</a> to exempt <i>all</i> correspondence between an MP and a public body from disclosure under the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00036--p.htm#sch1">Freedom of Information Act 2000</a>, and prevented it from being weakened so as to target only communications that relate to the personal affairs of a constituent of an MP.</p>
  
  <p>This was to test whether the <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1809563.ece">stated reason</a> for the change in the law was to protect sensitive information of a private member of the public, or if it was intended to be broader than that.</p>
  
  
  
  
  
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