I can see how that would be frustrating and sort of causes a misuse of public funds. Feels like infrastructure queries shouldn’t come under FOI when i first co

I can see how that would be frustrating and sort of causes a misuse of public funds. Feels like infrastructure queries shouldn’t come under FOI when i first consider it. Then i suppose there might be legitimate reasons to care; Perhaps things like conflict of interest in contract allocation, or things not being put out to tender. As you mention, it feels like publicly funded things should be able to be inspected by default, so perhaps having it out in the open all the time is best. That requires funding and it requires a commitment at a governmental level to get it right. With the lack of funding provided to public institutions in the uk though it’s pretty hard even for the basics to be done well. I’d better not get on to that subject lest i get testy. Back to your main point though, I don’t know how to differentiate (with a set of unambiguous rules) between the trivial and non-trivial in a way that doesn’t accidentally prevent real use cases. Perhaps the way FOI is set up is at fault here rather than the people who make use of it, trivially or otherwise.