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==Biographical Information==
'''James Cornford''' (died in 2011). "In 1976 he was appointed director of a policy unit created by the [[Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust]]. He called it the Outer Circle policy unit, a name encapsulating both its location in Regent's Park, London, and its unconventional thinking about public policy. It studied the future of devolution, the NHS, taxation, the hidden economy, producers' co-operatives, quangos, nationality and, most notably, the Official Secrets Act and its replacement by an information act. After four years, he became director of the [[Nuffield Foundation]], a grant-making charitable trust, where he cut costs by moving to a less prestigious address and rationalising its research programmes. The [[Campaign for Freedom of Information]] was at the forefront of his reforming zeal, and from 1984 to 1997 he was its chairman, working with its indefatigable director [[Maurice Frankel]]. It was an effective combination.

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