When I’ve visited Boston in the past I’ve always liked that the local press publish accounts of food safety inspections, and have often wondered why we don’t get that here.

I suspect that that’s about to change. The Information Commissioner has ruled that local councils have to make public their reports on the health and safety of restaurants they inspect.

No doubt it will take Belfast City Council quite some time to get around to implementing a system for doing this, so to kick things off I’ve made an FoI request for details of all inspections in the last two years.