How it works

You have the right to request information from any publicly-funded body, and get answers. Demo Alaveteli helps you make a Freedom of Information request. It also publishes all requests online.

  1. Use this site to make your request for information – we'll show you how.

  2. We'll drop you an email as soon as your request gets a response.

  3. We publish it all online. Great! Now you have your answer, and everybody else can access it too.

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Access Info Impact Awards

Are you an individual or an organisation who’s used the Right to Information to have a positive impact on society — or perhaps you know one that has? Either way, you can celebrate great use of FOI by nominating it for an Access Info Impact Award. The winner will be invited to present their work…

Reddit, WhatDoTheyKnow and the use of under-qualified medical staff in the NHS

WhatDoTheyKnow and Reddit: bring them together, and amazing things can happen — as we’ve discovered from one of our users. We’ve been talking to Yasmin Marsh, who, as part of a small collective of NHS doctors and staff named PA Project Watch group, is investigating concerns around the use of under-qualified medical staff in NHS…

Tell us how you’ve used batch requests — get free Pro credit

Free credit for WhatDoTheyKnow Pro subscribers who add links from their batch requests to the stories or papers that the requests have fed into.

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