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Delegated Legislation: Clause 6 — Transfer of property, rights and liabilities (21 Feb 2008): Iain Duncan Smith: The hon. Gentleman has been a Member of this House for a long time and he has argued endlessly that there should be freedom of information and that we should be open. Does he not feel even the slightest bit ashamed of his Government, as they have driven through this Bill when it is clearly not an emergency? With all his Back-Bench experience and given all the Governments he has seen, does he...
Delegated Legislation: Clause 6 — Transfer of property, rights and liabilities (21 Feb 2008): Iain Duncan Smith: ...commercial interests or the interests of the taxpayer. The main priority of all this secrecy and all this rush is to safeguard the political interests of this Government. They know very well that if freedom of information was allowed, we would find out exactly what had gone on over the past few months. We would know how incompetent and disgraceful their behaviour has been. We would learn...

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