We heard from deputy commissioner Leadbeater that it is legitimate for a department to inform the minister of the identity of a requester and to have officials examine the request, including the name of the requester, in order to prepare a media strategy in dealing with that request. Would you care to comment on, first of all, the name going to a minister, and secondly, staff needing time to prepare a media response?
On October 16th, 2006. See this statement in context.