Results 1-5 of 5 for "freedom of information" speaker:Hugh Bayley

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Hugh Bayley: I warmly welcome the Government's decision not to seek to exempt Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I was one of the Labour Back Benchers who went to the Whips and said that they could not vote for such a proposal. I do not frequently clash with my party's Front Benchers, but on this occasion I felt that it was an important matter. I take great pride in the fact that my...

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Hugh Bayley: ...aware that I take the view—in relation to this category at least, and possibly to others—that we would do more to reassure the public if we published routinely and without the need for freedom of information requests a more detailed breakdown of expenditure. On my hon. Friend's point, I should explain that the reason why there may be a gap between the 26 categories on the one...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Freedom of Information Act (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Hugh Bayley: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many disclosures of information he estimates have been made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Electoral System (2 Jun 1998)

Mr Hugh Bayley: ...wide parts of the constitution. It would be extraordinary if we were prepared to modernise our constitution in relation to the other place, the government of Scotland and Wales, human rights and freedom of information, but stuck rigidly to an 18th-century electoral system for this House. It has been argued that first past the post gives strong government. After 18 years of Conservative...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Parliamentary Papers (23 Oct 1995)

Mr Hugh Bayley: Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that an effective democracy demands freedom of information about what happens in Parliament and that £12 a week is way beyond the means of most ordinary people? Does he agree that the cost of parliamentary documents, even if they are falling substantially in price, is way beyond what ordinary people can pay and that this simply increases the power and...