Paragraph 29 provides that the Sponsor Body is to be treated as a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This means that the Sponsor Body will have to introduce a publication scheme explaining how it intends to handle information in its possession, as well as being obliged to consider requests for information in accordance with the provisions of that Act.
Schedule 1: The Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body Part 2: Powers, procedure, reporting etc. Freedom of information