Results 1-7 of 7 for "freedom of information" speaker:Stuart Bell

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (24 Feb 2009) has video

Stuart Bell: Can the Secretary of State confirm that the Freedom of Information Act is not to be used like Wikipedia, which people can add to and subtract from, and to which any fraudster can introduce themselves and distort the record? Will he reconfirm what he has just said—that 78,000 documents have been released under the Act? Is it not in accordance with our constitution, going back to Bagehot...

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

Stuart Bell: The Leader of the House says that 1.2 million bits of paper will be put into the machinery and will be published under the Freedom of Information Act. Will she confirm that the cost to the taxpayer of dealing with those 1.2 million documents is £1.2 million?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Members' Allowances (16 Jul 2008) has video

Stuart Bell: ...will be put, and to whom they will refer. My right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig), who is no longer in his place but follows such debates, was perfectly right: the NAO is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, audits are exempt from that, and there would be no question of reporting to FOI people that there was an audit and what the consequences were. I was not able to...

Delegated Legislation: Clause 6 — Transfer of property, rights and liabilities (21 Feb 2008)

Stuart Bell: I am not an expert on witches' brew. If I were an expert on witches' brew, I would be an expert on the Freedom of Information Act. The point is—and the Financial Secretary has already made it—that Northern Rock will not be a public body. Freedom of information legislation requires that sensitive information be defended. The Bank of England has an exemption from the Freedom of...

Delegated Legislation: Clause 6 — Transfer of property, rights and liabilities (21 Feb 2008)

Stuart Bell: ...within Northern Rock that are not required to be used as that top-up. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West for his comments, because I shall now move on from the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to the question of competition. The Conservatives are not helped by the fact that they have an anti-European attitude and yet they have to fall back on the EU to...

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Freedom of Information (17 Jan 2005)

Mr Stuart Bell: The Church Commissioners do not fall within the Freedom of Information Act.

Debate on the Address (16 Nov 1994)

Mr Stuart Bell: ..., who will benefit from and be satisfied with a Bill to tackle discrimination against disabled people. Many hon. Members would go along with his view on privacy, provided that there was also a freedom of information Act on the statute book. The linking of a privacy Bill with a freedom of information Bill would show that we support the principle of having some privacy and opening up the...