Submitted by Pablo O'Hana on Saturday 25th October 2025
Published on Friday 28th November 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 28th May 2026
Current Signatures: 174
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Bringing ~ British ~ Carry ~ Cornwall ~ Duchy ~ Freedom ~ Freedom of Information ~ Institution ~ Lancaster ~ Law ~ Monarchy ~ Money ~ Prevent ~ PRIVACY ~ Protecting ~ Royal ~ Royal Family ~ Scope ~ Secret ~ security ~ The British ~ The Monarchy ~ The Royal ~ The Royal Family ~ trust
Include the Royal Family, Household & Duchies in the Freedom of Information Act
Legislate to bring the Royal Family, the Royal Household, the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Duchy of Cornwall within the scope of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. We think this would help to modernise constitutional transparency, safeguard privacy and increase trust in the British Monarchy.
Many parts of the monarchy receive financial support from the government, and carry out public functions. Yet they are outside FOI, and much information is secret by law. We think bringing them within FOI – while protecting personal data and security – would improve value-for-money scrutiny, prevent conflicts of interest, increase trust and transparency in an institution many of us support. We believe that if public money is used, there must be public accountability.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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