Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, is supervising a review of the Freedom of Information Act which came into force on 1 January 2005,[1] and has denied being Sir Cover-up as he faces accusations of slowing down the release of the Chilcot Inquiry's report into the Iraq War.[2]
Heywood has also been accused of suppressing the release of government files into the public domain because they contain ‘politically sensitive information’. Among the files due to have been released in 2015 but withheld are those dealing with the Gibraltar shootings and Pan Am Flight 103.[3]
Background
Heywood was educated at Bootham School,[4] an independent school with a Quaker background and ethos in York, before taking a BA in History and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He also studied for a semester at Harvard Business School.[5]
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