Results 1-8 of 8 for "freedom of information" speaker:Gwyneth Dunwoody

Orders of the Day: Local Government (26 Feb 2008)

Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...it is very clear that the information given to the Government was not strong enough to support their view—otherwise, they would have been quite prepared to support the request made under the Freedom of Information Act for a copy of the assessment and would not have needed to refuse it. If the report vindicates the decision further to change the financial envelope, why does the...

Points of Order: Local Government Finance (4 Feb 2008)

Gwyneth Dunwoody: ..., only a certain amount of administration is required to ensure that all will be well. If he has such total confidence in his formulae and the suggestions of his Department, why did he refuse a freedom of information request to reveal straightforward figures on which decisions for the county of Cheshire have been based? Surely that does not sit too comfortably with what he has been telling...

Points of Order: Police Grant (4 Feb 2008)

Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...been imposed by the Department on the basis that it will not only improve the facilities but will be much cheaper and more efficient, and will roll us forward to a fantastically bright future. Cheshire county council made a freedom of information request to ask why there was a direct and clear difference between the figures originally given to the county council by the Department and those...

Oral Answers to Questions — Constitutional Affairs: Freedom of Information (17 Oct 2006)

Gwyneth Dunwoody: I have listened carefully to what my hon. and learned Friend has said. Will she tell me how many Members of Parliament have used the Freedom of Information Act? Some of us find it rather disheartening that, when we ask for information on sensitive subjects from the Department of Health, for example, we are given so little. In those cases, we have to prepare freedom of information applications...

Orders of the Day — Procedure (Modernisation) (22 May 1997)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: If that is the case, would it not be a good idea to introduce a freedom of information Act immediately? That would ensure that that situation does not arise again.

Estimates Day: Government Information (10 Dec 1996)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...that I required that would safeguard British travellers was not vouchsafed from the Department of Transport—I got it from the Federal Aviation Authority of America. That country has a freedom of information Act and I took the necessary information off the Internet, in the House of Commons, courtesy of the American system.

Estimates Day: Government Information (10 Dec 1996)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) on introducing it. He made some important and sensible comments—which is not a common occurrence in the Chamber. I believe that we should demand a freedom of information Act from any Government of any complexion. However, today I shall address the reasons why I believe that the House of Commons needs such an Act more urgently than any...

Opposition Day: HMSO (Privatisation) (18 Mar 1996)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...as a House occasionally, and to oppose the Government because the people believe that they have the right to know what is happening and what is being done at every level. It is precisely that freedom of information that I believe is at risk. That may sound overly dramatic, but in a nation that receives less and less information about Parliament from the press, and that finds it more and...