On Tuesday, he gave evidence to a House of Commons committee on opengovernment in support ofthe government's proposals for a freedom-of-information act.
And the option of returning others to prison remains open to thegovernment if there is intelligence information to link them to what has been going on in recent days and weeks.
Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots ofgovernmentinformation is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.