Why doesn’t Brown go the whole hog?

Today’s Daily Telegraph reports that:

“As a prelude to next week’s announcement Mr Brown will today set out his plans for “a smarter, more efficient and more responsive government.” Among the plans Mr Brown wants 2,000 sets of data up and running and available to the public from January. It would include areas like the road traffic counts from last eight years; all legislation on a database for the first time; property prices listed with stamp duty yield; all motoring offences with the type of offence and the numbers, by county, for the top six offences. Farm survey data would also be available. The Prime Minister will point to the success of crime mapping as an example of where data openness helps citizens.”