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By saying that details of the waivers are "commercially sensitive" information, the SRA misses the point in spectacular fashion. The public needs to be able to see the waivers, to know what has and has not been waived; and the profession needs to see the waivers (and the applications underlying them), to know who has a waiver, what it covers and what criteria were applied in order to grant it.

Even if the waiver amounts to "commercially sensitive" information, the public interest in disclosing full details of the waiver vastly outweighs any interest in not disclosing those details.

Sadly, this sort of opaque nonsense will continue until the SRA is made subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Its homegrown "Transparency Code" does not come close to cutting the mustard.