Results 1-8 of 8 for "freedom of information" speaker:Christopher Chope
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day — Second Part]: Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords] (By Order) (29 Oct 2008) has video
Christopher Chope: ...will want to take out a street trader's licence to sell balloons, because of the cost of such a licence in Bournemouth. According to information that I have been given by a third party under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, only two street trading licences are currently issued in Bournemouth, and they each cost £610. Mr. Fernando is not going to spend £610; even if he were...
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day — Second Part]: Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords] (By Order) (29 Oct 2008) has video
Christopher Chope: ...to develop that argument, or allude to what Dorset police say about the matter, the special rules that they have introduced for pedlars' certificates and the information that I obtained under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about the number of certificates that have been issued—
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day — Second Part]: Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords] (By Order) (29 Oct 2008) has video
Christopher Chope: ...do have some information from Dorset police about the number of pedlars licences that they have issued. The information is contained in a letter dated 31 January, which was written to me under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Between 6 April 2007 and 10 January 2008, which was the latest period for which figures were available, Dorset police issued 33 pedlars' certificates and...
- Orders of the Day: European Union (Audit of Benefits and Costs of UK Membership) Bill (20 Jun 2008) has video
Christopher Chope: The Minister is talking about 60 million documents for all UK trade, but, to put that in context, 1 million documents will have to be produced by the House in response to freedom of information requests to Members of Parliament.
- Orders of the Day: New Clause 5 — Suitability of millennium development goals (16 Jun 2006)
Christopher Chope: My hon. Friend is right. One problem is that the more information is available, the more difficult it is for people to focus on what is important. It has been said that with open government and freedom of information, more information is being put in the public domain in the knowledge that the public will not be able to get access to it—there is so much information that they will not be...
- Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 32 - References to the ORR (13 Jan 2005)
Mr Christopher Chope: ...of clause 32. Finally, under the auspices of this clause stand part debate, I ask the Minister whether the information that is provided to the Office of Rail Regulation will be available under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to anybody who wishes to have it. As I understand it, the Office of Rail Regulation will be a public sector body. Since it will be under a statutory duty to...
- Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 22 - Proposal by service operator to discontinue non-franchised services (13 Jan 2005)
Mr Christopher Chope: ...to the general public not just when a closure proposal is made but from now on? What about the suggestion that Network Rail can argue that it is not obliged to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000? How can we get access to the true running costs of some of the lines?
- Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 22 - Proposal by service operator to discontinue non-franchised services (13 Jan 2005)
Mr Christopher Chope: ...costs to maintain that line, its stations and so on. At the moment, it is difficult to obtain such information because it is said that it is commercially confidential. It has also been rumoured that the Freedom of Information Act 2000 would not apply to Network Rail because it is a supposedly private sector organisation, although everyone knows that that is a sham. Will the Minister...