Results 1-16 of 16 for "freedom of information" speaker:David Davis

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Freedom of Information (21 Jan 2008)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what requests were made to her Department under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2000 in each of the last two years; and what the (a) FOI case reference number, (b) request summary, (c) request outcome and (d) where appropriate, reason for exemption was in each case.

Royal Assent: Intelligence and Security Committee (Annual Report) (11 Jul 2006)

David Davis: ...of the public interest may have been the reason for the acquittal of Clive Ponting, under a previous Government. The Government came to power with an admirable reputation and enthusiasm for freedom of information, for protecting whistleblowers and for civil rights—an apposite point given the issues that were raised with me earlier—which has, sadly, faded in recent years. The...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc. (10 Feb 2005)

Mr David Davis: Those claims have been discounted recently, I notice, but I am happy to recognise the single success of the Government's freedom of information programme so far. The primary problem is not concealment of identity, but concealment of circumstance, of which my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley), the former Secretary of State for Social Security, was only too...

Election of Speaker (23 Oct 2000)

Mr David Davis: ...was wrong under a Tory Government, just as it is under a Labour Government. Many aspects of recent legislation have changed the rights of our citizens—the right to trial by jury, the right to freedom of information and to a number of other matters, including a passport. Those issues should be decided by the House, and a future Speaker should take that matter in hand. My point is...

Opposition Day: Parliament and the Executive (13 Jul 2000)

Mr David Davis: ...Government started well on the reform represented by draft legislation, and I hope that there will be more of it, but I also hope that they will take more notice of the pre-legislative phase. The Freedom of Information Bill is not a wonderful outcome because not enough notice was taken of pre-legislative discussions. An aspect on which we should focus to improve the effectiveness of the...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: Discretionary Disclosures (5 Apr 2000)

Mr David Davis: ..., options and analyses relating to any decisions, but not advice. I shall not read out the full text of the amendment, but I should like to thank Maurice Frankel and his staff at the Campaign for Freedom of Information for helping me to draft it, particularly considering the risk of collective seizure when someone with my hard-edged reputation in these matters rings them up and asks for...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: Discretionary Disclosures (5 Apr 2000)

Mr David Davis: My hon. Friend, from a sedentary position, says that there are exemptions for them. I encompass a harm test in amendment No. 91, and the harm test should be rigorous, but it will not greatly limit freedom of information. For three years during a European negotiation leading up to the treaty of Amsterdam, I appeared almost once a month before the Select Committee on European Legislation and...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: Discretionary Disclosures (5 Apr 2000)

Mr David Davis: Is it not also the case that one important aspect of democracy is that the party that is elected carries through what appeared to be a manifesto commitment to freedom of information?

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: Time for Compliance with Request (4 Apr 2000)

Mr David Davis: I reiterate the points that I made earlier. Freedom of information is about better-informed debate, a strong democracy and a better-performing Government. The amendments bear an important relationship to that. I do not want to talk at length about the Conservative amendments, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins). He raised some important issues of principle. I...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: Public Authorities to Which Act Has Limited Application. (4 Apr 2000)

Mr David Davis: As the House knows, I do not approach the Bill as one who has a history of fanaticism about freedom of information. Given my periods of office in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office and the Whips Office—I would need only a period at the Home Office to have the full set of the most secretive Departments of State—my training has all been in the opposite...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill (7 Dec 1999)

Mr David Davis: ...some of the points made by the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Helen Jackson), who made an admirable speech, full of common sense. I do not approach the issue from the perspective of a freedom of information enthusiast—not for its own sake, in any event. For any measure that comes before the House on that subject, my test is whether it makes democracy and government work...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill (7 Dec 1999)

Mr David Davis: It is a pity that the hon. Gentleman brings the debate down to that level. He was not seeking freedom of information at all. First, no one made any allegation about my behaviour. If the hon. Gentleman wants to do so outside, we can test it in the court. Mr. McGilligan, the ambassador at the time, made it clear that I behaved entirely honourably. Secondly, the papers to which the hon....

Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment (23 Nov 1999)

Mr David Davis: ...interests of the victim, but we should not throw away that right without considering all the other options that are available, some of which are perfectly likely to produce a better outcome. The Freedom of Information Bill is the other most contentious issue in that part of the Queen's Speech that we are debating today. I am no great advocate of freedom of information for its own sake. It...

Parliamentary Control of the Executive (22 Jun 1999)

Mr David Davis: ...of information and the control of money. Governments protect their monopoly over those two areas almost as fiercely as they defend their monopoly on Executive power. The Government's proposed Freedom of Information Bill will improve only slightly the position regarding Parliament's access to information. My Bill creates the post of parliamentary investigating officer who, like...

Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill: Scottish Consolidated Fund (12 Feb 1998)

Mr David Davis: ...unique institution is flawed for precisely that reason. I am attempting to make a difficult entity work because, at the end of the day, I am committed to the United Kingdom, to open government, freedom of information and democracy—all of which are tied up in this equation. Clause 66 specifies the limited framework of accountability and scrutiny that the Scottish Parliament must...

Orders of the Day — Opposition Day: Unelected State Bodies (24 Feb 1994)

Mr David Davis: ...own little private ponds that they do not like to speak about. That is something else that the Labour party never did in office. The Labour party, while in Opposition, is good at speaking about freedom of information, for example, and doing nothing about it, all the time that it is in office, or about many other measures. It is very good at that type of thing. We also introduced the...