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Adjournment (Christmas) (16 Dec 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) made a commendably—and unusually—brief speech. He made only one point: that the Government should honour their commitment on freedom of information and produce a substantive Bill at the earliest possible date. Bearing in mind all the work that was done by the previous Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, it should...

Opposition Day: Government and Parliament (21 Jul 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...in that regard, but, from this vantage point, I do not feel that the Government have served the House as they should have over the past year. An item in today's Financial Times says that the freedom of information Bill is at risk. Even if only by way of an intervention, I hope that the Leader of the House or the Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service, who is scribbling...

Class XVII, Vote 1: Freedom of Information (6 Jul 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...and political commentator, Noam Chomsky, said some decades ago that freedom of speech, valuable though it is, depends on those who have the power to define language. The same is true of information. Freedom of information depends very much on those who control the flow of that information, and the White Paper—and the legislation that we hope and expect will follow it—will do...

Class XVII, Vote 1: Freedom of Information (6 Jul 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...him later in the debate if he has the good fortune to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is one of the quainter ironies of parliamentary life that we should debate the Government's policy on freedom of information the day after The Observer suggested that some Government information is freer than others—the hon. Member for Cardiff, West also referred to that—and the day...

Oral Answers to Questions — Freedom of Information (1 Apr 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...supplied by Government? Does the right hon. Gentleman believe that the way in which information and news management is handled by No. 10 in particular is compatible with his ideas of what true freedom of information should be?

Freedom of Information (11 Dec 1997)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...Government's work in instituting the citizens charter, producing league tables in health and education, and making many other important advances in open government. Does the Minister agree that any freedom of information legislation should be submitted to a Special Standing Committee, so that it can be scrutinised most carefully? Does he accept that government, the parliamentary process...

Points of Order (9 Dec 1997)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ..."Today" programme, one would have gathered that we would have two statements in the House this afternoon, not one. We were told in some detail what the Government will propose in a White Paper on freedom of information. As soon as I got to my office, I rang the Chancellor of the Duchy's office; asked whether there would be a statement, and was told that there would not; and asked whether...