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Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Frank Field: ...simple steps that the trust might take to find out whether the fraud was more widespread and involved other doctors. Both my request and my suggestion were refused. In January 2008, under the Freedom of Information of Act 2000, I asked the trust for information about the inquiries that it said it had undertaken. After some delay, the trust refused to give the information. In July 2008 I...

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Frank Field: I want to come back to the substantive point that we are discussing today. It is not a general point about the Freedom of Information Act and how it operates; the issue is how it operates specifically with regard to our expenses. Is it not true that however the Government wish to present those expenses, our constituents will be able to find out what we have spent and how we have spent it?

Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: New Clause 34 — Financial assistance scheme for members of certain pension schemes (19 May 2004)

Mr Frank Field: ...not see. The heroes of today's events are sitting below me on the Treasury Bench. Of course, we wish to pursue issues about how complete the compensation fund will be, but we also know that the Freedom of Information Act 2000 will allow us to ask for policy papers on issues of public concern from 1 January next year. So when I ask for the papers on 1 April next year, on the whole saga of...