Results 1-20 of 24 for "freedom of information" speaker:Ben Bradshaw

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Pay (13 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: The Department is committed to being open about its use of expenses. Recent answers to parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests have not only covered the expenses directly claimed but also expenses covered by centrally managed contracts, for example train and hotel bookings. These answers have included expenses data at an aggregate level or for a handful of individuals...

Written Answers — Health: Primary Care Trusts: Freedom of Information (26 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: As public authorities in their own right, each primary care trust is responsible under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the responses it provides. The Department has provided guidance to national health service organisations on the processes that they should have in place for managing their Freedom of Information requests and on the need for publication schemes to be in place by 1...

Written Answers — Health: Primary Care Trusts: Freedom of Information (19 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...would be to recommend to the bringer of the allegation that he or she redirect the allegation to the Information Commissioner's Office, who has the enforcement powers to intervene under the Freedom of Information Act. The Department does not have powers under the Act to intervene with other organisations.

Written Answers — Health: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (10 Feb 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: A copy of the report has been placed in the Library, Some details in the report have been redacted where the following conditions of the Freedom of Information Act apply; (1) Section 36(2)(b) and (c)—where disclosure of the information would inhibit the free and frank provision of advice, or the free and frank exchange of views, for the purposes of deliberation, or would otherwise...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Freedom of Information (4 Feb 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: The number of staff employed to deal with requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act on a full-time and a part-time basis by the Department, its agencies, and the overall estimated annual cost of their employment are set out in the following table. The estimated overall annual cost of their employment is £360,000, based on the mid-range of salary per member of staff. In...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Freedom of Information (12 Jan 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: The following table provides a breakdown of the number of requests under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department since 2005; requests agreed to and refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each year; and how many appeals were successful. A copy of the material provided in each successful appeal to the Information...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Advisory Bodies (17 Dec 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...in the Environment COMARE minutes are not published. This is because they often contain confidential information relating to individuals or unpublished research material. This process has been cleared with the Freedom of Information Commissioner. Independent Review Panel for the Classification of Borderline Products The full minutes of the meetings contain commercially sensitive...

Written Answers — Health: Ipsos MORI (10 Sep 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...). The reports "Public Perceptions of the NHS July 2007", "Public Perceptions of the NHS December 2007" and "Public Perceptions of the NHS March 2008" will be published as part of the Department's "Freedom of Information" publication scheme. These reports will be placed in the Library on publication. The project Qualitative Research into Access to GP Practices was mistakenly listed as a...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Ict (30 Jun 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...publish copies of, or extracts from, contracts with suppliers let under the National Programme for IT on the grounds that the contents are covered by the exemptions at sections 41 and 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Section 41 of the Act exempts information where disclosure would constitute an actionable breach of confidence, and section 43(2) where disclosure would, or would...

Written Answers — Health: Medical Records (23 Jun 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...of the summary care record rather than to the report of the working party. It is covered by legal professional privilege, which provides grounds, recognised in an exemption under section 42 of the Freedom of Information Act, for not disclosing communications between a public authority and its legal advisers where this would not be in the public interest. Legal privilege is an essential...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Freedom of Information (19 May 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: The Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires public bodies to respond to written requests within 20 working days of receipt, but allows additional time for the consideration of the public interest in disclosing the requested information. The Act came into force on 1 January 2005. The following table sets out, for 2005 and 2006, figures for the Department drawn from the statistical reports...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Databases (14 May 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...Protection Act—2001; BS7799 (now ISO 27001)—every six months from the end of 2002 to November 2007; System Security In Departmental Information Technology (IT) Applications—2004; Freedom of Information—2006 Information Security—2007 NHS PASA The Agency was created in 2000 and since inception has been audited annually on all matters of governance including...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Freedom of Information (8 May 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: The Department does not monitor freedom of information requests or responses from individual national health service trusts, nor does it require trusts to report freedom of information requests which they receive. NHS trusts are public authorities in their own right, as designated in schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. They are therefore individually responsible for freedom of...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Databases (27 Feb 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...and contractual obligations for them to permit and facilitate any audit of personal data and IT equipment. Contracts include terms and conditions covering confidentiality, data protection and freedom of information.

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Freedom of Information (25 Feb 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...has adopted a selective disclosure log, whereby only the most interesting and high-profile pieces of information are published. Between 1 January 2005 and 30 September 2007, 2 per cent. of Freedom of Information requests received by the Department gave rise to responses that were published by the Department. However, we periodically publish a list of all requests that have resulted in...

Written Answers — Health: Information Services Division (18 Feb 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...and the delivery of contractually agreed service levels; knowledge management and IT skills development: delivering training, advice and consultancy service on all aspects of knowledge management; freedom of information unit: provision of advice and guidance on all aspects of the regulations relating to freedom of information and data protection; library services: delivery of up-to-date...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Employers: Freedom of Information (18 Feb 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: No. NHS Employers is a company limited by guarantee, and works as part of the NHS Confederation. As such, it is not considered a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act. NHS Employers provides services under contract to the Department, and also acts independently to represent the interests of individual national health service employers.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: KPMG (14 Jan 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: Currently officials within the Department are using the report in relation to current policy formulation and development. With this in mind we are currently applying section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act to the report as the information would be likely to inhibit free and frank provision of advice and the free and frank exchange of views for the purposes of deliberations. The results...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Secondment (3 Dec 2007)

Ben Bradshaw: .... Anecdotally, most secondments out of the Department are to national health service trusts, other health-related organisations or other Government Departments. Work carried out to answer a previous Freedom of Information request suggested that virtually all secondees into the Department are from public sector organisations. Anecdotally, most of these are from NHS trusts or other...

Written Answers — Health: National Media Evaluations (11 Jul 2007)

Ben Bradshaw: Since August 2005, The Department has published its media evaluation reports as part of the Department's wider commitment to Freedom of Information on its website at: www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Freedomofinformat ionpublicationschemefeedback/Classesofinformation/Communicat ionsresearch/index.htm The reports for January 2006-November 2006 were published on the website in June...