FOI request reveals secret minutes of East Sussex County Council Pension Fund

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After putting in a Freedom Of Information request, the minutes for the East Sussex County Council Pension Fund Investment Panel - from 1974 to 2007 - have been released for the first time. As I noted in my analysis of the minutes:

"It has been difficult to get the minutes released of the secretive East Sussex County Council Pension Fund Investment Panel. I made one request for the minutes in 2006 but was only sent heavily censored versions of them. I even tried to attend one of the meetings of the Panel but was told that "the open session of the meeting usually only lasts for approximately 5 minutes at the start." Later, in 2008, after reading Your Right to Know - New Edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act by Heather Brooke I wrote a strong Freedom of Information request asking for all of the minutes since the Pension Fund began (see the websites WhatDoTheyKnow.com and Wikileaks.org for more info). As far as I know, this is the first time they have been released to the public. Some information has not been disclosed as the letter from the FOI officer shows however the majority of it has now been released."

The released minutes, the FOI request I used and background information about the fund can be found here:

http://ed.acrewoods.net/ideas/politics/sri/east_sussex_cc

My analysis of the minutes:

http://ed.acrewoods.net/ideas/politics/sri/east_sussex_cc/analysis