As I said, it's going to be very difficult to understand what the effect will be until we have a chance to look at what people actually ask for. In my judgment, the cost for those agencies that come into the system will be pretty marginal, but only time will tell us what those costs will be. A lot depends on how well departments are prepared for access to information; if you have a good filing system and you're able to obtain your records quickly, and you don't spend much time and money trying to be secret, then your costs become fairly small. If you spend a lot of time putting secrecy at the top of your list, then your costs rise, because secrecy is one of the biggest costs in access to information.
On June 19th, 2006. See this statement in context.