Schedule 1: The Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body Part 2: Powers, procedure, reporting etc. Freedom of information
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.