There's already a balancing act that's going on there, and there's always an understanding from the person who puts in the request that there are going to be times when the answer is going to be no. We understand perfectly well that if it's national security, of course we're not going to know that. For a government official to say that is completely expected.
The problem is that those exemptions have grown to be very bloated, and at this point we spend a lot of time fighting back on them, because we just see big things that are blacked out, and a little comment on the side that we can't have this for whatever reason, such as cabinet confidence. It's very hard to question it when it's applied with such a blanket.
The new legislation would not address that. There has to be an effort to curtail it and keep it under control, rather than having it serve as an excuse across the board. Giving the Information Commissioner more power over that situation is certainly a way to do it, but I can't speak to the technicality. She's done such a wonderful job of how that should be done, and I'll leave it to her to make the case.