Requests for data by Reform UK's DOGE unit are a ‘cyber-security disaster waiting to happen', shadow levelling up secretary Kevin Hollinrake has warned information commissioner John Edwards.
A letter from Reform to Kent CC – the first council to be visited by a team of auditors inspired by the US Government's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – asked council officers to provide them with extensive datasets, including contract data, correspondence on major procurements and whistleblowing reports relevant to financial matters. It advised Reform would ‘consider any obstruction of our councillors' duties to be gross misconduct'.
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