Speaking during questions on 21 March 2012, shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said the closure of the Central Office of Information (COI) would make things worse.
Labour's shadow minister for the cabinet office, Jon Trickett, welcomed the scheme, but said it needed to be viewed within the context of the pain caused by government spending cuts.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said during departmental questions on 2 November 2011 that the number of FoI requests responded to by the Cabinet Office had "nose dived" from 90% to 42% in a year.