Information Watchdog Orders Transgender Clinic to Release Mermaids Emails
The NHS Tavistock gender clinic could face court action after the UK’s information regulator ordered it to reveal its relationship with the scandal-hit charity Mermaids.
In March, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) responded a Freedom of Information (FOI) request that asked for communications between the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the CEO of Mermaids between 2014 and 2018.
The request was made to ascertain how much influence the LGBT charity Mermaids, which promotes transgenderism in gender-dysphoric children, had over official NHS policy.
NHS Tavistock responded to the FOI on March 10, stating that following “an extensive search of emails … the Trust does not hold the requested information.”
Last year, the trust had previously refused to comply with the request, citing section 14(1) of the FOI Act, which allows public authorities to refuse any requests that have the potential to cause a “disproportionate or unjustified level of disruption, irritation or distress.”
The matter, however, was referred to the ICO, which said that the trust has not “provided a meaningful and comprehensive response.”
The ICO ruled that “on the balance of probabilities,” the trust does have relevant emails and now has until May 5 to respond. It said that it “must conduct fresh searches into the requested information and provide a new response which is adequate for the purposes of FOIA.”
In the UK, it is a criminal offence to block, erase, destroy, or conceal any information held by a public authority with the intention of preventing disclosure following a request.
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The NHS is as shady as any other enterprise where money is the driving force.
The NHS needs dismantling, and rebuilding to eradicate the waste, and woke nonsense, particularly the hero worship (heroes… Aren’t people in the profession because they care?), which then breeds unreasonable demands.
Get rid of the top bracket money spongers, and start charging the visitors to the country who don’t contribute like everybody else has too.
The UK taxpayers are total mugs at the behest of the rest of the world thanks to clueless ministers who subscribe to the “I’m allright jack’ mentality. Even though some of those mugs seem to revel in it and dishonour there own countrymen’s rights in preference to users and abusers from afar.
It will arrive sooner or later, there is no choice.
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there = their.
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