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ISSUES Democratic Audit examines democratic issues in between publishing full audits of democracy in the UK. We describe the findings of the last full UK audit in Democracy under Blair (Politico's, 2002): For more information on Democracy under Blair, click here >> The new freedom of information regime which came into force in January is supposed to open up citizen's access to official information – but there are 36 categories of information that will or may be withheld. There are other flaws in the new rules – not least the power of ministers to overrule decisions by the Information Commissiioner to release documents. To read our full analysis of the regime, click here >> In this section, we also summarise current work and information on quangos and quangocrats, | spin, | discrimination [in economic and social rights] and choosing a new electoral system. Read more about Democracy under Blair Related Links Freedom of Information Quangos Spin & Government Communications Economic and Social Rights Electoral reform in Britain

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