More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.
The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
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The Department had found that to meet transparency targets it was quicker to increase opacity and thereby loop around and back into transparency from the wrong direction.