I’ve just been informed by Food Safety in Belfast City Council that they have plans to publish their inspection reports on the web, but are currently awaiting legal opinion to make sure it’s OK for them to volunteer this information openly (rather than as a result to a specific FoI request).

Assuming they get the go ahead they hope to have a site live in the first half of 2006 which can then be used as a pilot site so that all councils across the UK can present the information in a consistent manner.

Whilst I await the detailed response to my request, I should probably make a similar one from several of the other local councils, as lots of the restaurants I eat at semi-regularly are outside Belfast…