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The information commissioner has ordered the disclosure of "highly sensitive" papers about a meeting at Downing Street that led to the launch of the UK's largest IT-based project, the £12.4bn NHS national programme.

And it vindicates Computer Weekly's campaign against excessive secrecy over the National Programme for IT - a complaint made by many in the IT industry including the British Computer Society.

Thomas concluded that the Cabinet Office had breached the Freedom of Information Act:

- by failing to give Computer Weekly "adequate written notification about whether it held information of the description specified in the request".

- by failing to give a "proper assessment of the public interest factors in favour of disclosure".

He ordered the Cabinet Office to disclose the information requested within 35 calendar days of the date of his notice - 13 August 2007. Officials may appeal the decision to the Information Tribunal within 28 days.