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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

Peter Bottomley: ..., and the faster progress is made, the better. We should have such screening within a year for everyone who qualifies and is willing to take it up. The Queen's Speech should have included the revision of freedom of information and data protection. If I were a diabetes doctor working in a hospital and seconded to a community education programme, funded by the primary care trust and subject...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Bailiffs: Certification (19 Apr 2007)

Peter Bottomley: ...Affairs what guidance she has issued on the disclosure by local authorities of the terms of contracts with bailiffs for the enforcement of debt and collection of arrears under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 relating to (a) greater transparency and (b) specific requests.

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — Medical and Clinical Practice (14 Dec 2006)

Peter Bottomley: ...is not an MP's job to keep quiet when information that six out of the nine options that are being considered include the closure of the A and E unit or the closure of the hospital is disclosed under freedom of information provisions rather than in a straightforward notification to MPs. I hope that there will be an instruction throughout the health service that, if options are being...

Points of Order (16 Feb 2006)

Peter Bottomley: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Clearly a freedom of information application should get out of Government whatever other non-confidential discussions they had with the Post Office on this issue, outside of the contract. Would not it be more elegant if the Government, given the rightful fuss about this, volunteered to make such documents available without having to be pushed into...

Select Committees (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Peter Bottomley: If my hon. Friend looks at the list of ministerial responsibilities on page 41, he will see that one Under-Secretary—not one on the Front Bench now—has responsibility for freedom of information. If Members were criticised for not being in the House, would it be fair for that Under-Secretary to be on the Bench the whole time, while the number of MPs, journalists—

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland): N. J. Hyam (11 Feb 1999)

Mr Peter Bottomley: .... It is a complicated area, but many of the things that the Associated Coastal Tenants wants are worth considering. They include the right of leaseholders to appoint their choice of managing agent; freedom of information, so that issues of insurance and maintenance funds are open and accessible; certified summaries of expenditure; maintenance money to be held properly in funds that cannot...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Departmental Information (9 May 1994)

Mr Peter Bottomley: The House and the country will understand that using the parliamentary ombudsman as a method of appeal is a far more practical and speedy way to get information than trying to use a freedom of information Bill or Act. Will the parliamentary ombudsman have sufficient resources, and will the House have an opportunity to consider a range of reports when enough experience has been gathered?

Family Policy (4 Feb 1991)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...their children. That is an example of how the mood has changed. I would not want to stigmatise schools, but if we did not let parents know about such research results, we could not be said to have freedom of information. This may be considered a partisan point but, when we tried to focus on child immunisation a year ago—a serious area of child health—because 20 per cent. of...