Results 1-10 of 10 for "freedom of information" speaker:Alistair Darling

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Pension Funds (12 Jul 2007) has video

Alistair Darling: My hon. Friend is right and I can only assume that he has been looking at the papers that were made available to the former Chancellor, Norman Lamont, and released under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which make it abundantly clear that at the time the Treasury was aware of the distortion. Of course, the document then went on to note: "Everybody is being asked to pay more tax"— in...

Written Answers — Transport: Safety Cameras (27 Jun 2005)

Alistair Darling: ...camera sites. Information on the total fine receipts and number of fines for each partnership for the latest audited year 2003–04 is available on the Department's website of responses to Freedom of Information requests.

Asylum and Immigration (2 Mar 1992)

Mr Alistair Darling: ...is implemented with a common information system, under which someone who is stopped at Athens will, in effect, be refused entry to the whole of western Europe, counter-balancing rights such as freedom of information legislation across Europe must be given to citizens so that people can see what information is held on them.

Prayers: Constitutional Reform (17 May 1991)

Mr Alistair Darling: The Minister is making heavy weather of his criticism of the MORI poll. He has acknowledged that the poll expressed the public's concern, so will he explain why the Government will not introduce a freedom of information Bill and why they will not strengthen the data protection legislation?

Prayers: Constitutional Reform (17 May 1991)

Mr Alistair Darling: ...the British Government's actions is obtained from the United States? The United States has to declare some of its dealings with our Government and the information can be freely obtained under its Freedom of Information Act. We then receive that information by reading American newspapers. Does the Minister accept that there is a distinction between matters of genuine national security and...

Prayers: Constitutional Reform (17 May 1991)

Mr Alistair Darling: ...first time, set out clear and specific rights and remedies available to every British citizen. Our charter of rights, published in January this year, has set out our programe. We shall provide for a Freedom of Information Act, which is long overdue. We shall provide laws to protect privacy and to strengthen the data protection provisions, including the implementing of substantial parts of...

Prayers: Constitutional Reform (17 May 1991)

Mr Alistair Darling: There is nothing in the land that would not be justiciable. For example, under the Freedom of Information Act the system that we envisage is that a request for information would have to be answered within 30 days. In the event of the commissioner's saying that the information was not to be released, that would be justiciable. I think that the point that brought the hon. Member for Glasgow,...

Prayers: Constitutional Reform (17 May 1991)

Mr Alistair Darling: ...that in our proposals to reform the second Chamber, we propose to give it the power to delay—no more than delay—any attempt to tear up what we regard as fundamental rights, such as a Freedom of Information Act. The supremacy of Parliament means that no Parliament can bind its successors. The best that we can do under the present constitutional arrangements is to make it more...

Civil Liberties and Bill of Rights (19 Jun 1989)

Mr Alistair Darling: ..., a system that can be enforced by citizens in their local courts without having to go to London or Europe. We aim to create rights that provide an immediate remedy. For example, we consider that a freedom of information Act is essential and long overdue. Citizens have a right to know why decisions were made and who made them. We would repeal the Government's official secrets legislation....

Civil Liberties and Bill of Rights (19 Jun 1989)

Mr Alistair Darling: Let us take the freedom of information Act as an example. If it incorporated the fundamental right to which I have referred, it would not be possible for a subsequent Government to take away from or seek to repeal the Act until they had gone back to the country to gain a mandate to do so. That is how we seek to entrench rights that we regard as fundamental. If an incoming Government were...