Using Freedom of Information requests to check what happend in public consultations

This Boo salutes Richard Caulfield of Voluntary Sector North-West - almost certainly the first case where someone has used an FoIA request to enquire of a public body - what exactly happened to the submissions made in a public consultation. It is the subject of our latest Tuesday Topic (No 207) - available to all Consultation Institute members and to others upon request. Is this a harbinger of things to come ...?