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Michael Gove's Cabinet Office faces legal action over 'information blacklist team'

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Michael Gove's Cabinet Office is facing legal action over claims of an 'Orwellian' system of obstructing requests for public information.

The department runs a "Clearing House" unit, which monitors Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to departments across all Government departments - and which has been accused of 'black listing' journalists.

It comes as a new report, published today found government departments were rejecting requests for information on an unprecedented scale.

In the last five years, the Cabinet Office – as well as the Treasury, Foreign Office and Home Office – have all withheld more requests than they granted, according to the report by campaign group openDemocracy.

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