Results 1-19 of 19 for "freedom of information" speaker:Caroline Flint

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Freedom of Information (2 Mar 2009)

Caroline Flint: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has 10 staff in its information rights team who are responsible for managing freedom of information and subject access requests under the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts respectively. However, a large number of staff in the FCO play a role in answering freedom of information requests and to find out exactly how many would incur...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Internet (9 Feb 2009)

Caroline Flint: ..., Jerusalem Consulate-General, Jerusalem Arabic Crossroads For Ideas Design UK Japan Domican Republic Spanish Dominican Republic E-Media (best practice website for staff) FCO Arabic website FCO Urdu Freedom Of Information G8 Gleneagles 2005 Governor to the Cayman Islands i-uk China i-uk General Arabic i-uk Germany i-uk Germany German i-uk Netherlands i-uk.com i-uk. com Finland i-uk. com...

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Safety (15 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...related to this time period, just under 10 per cent. fell outside this timeline. Lord Archer has been advised that the Department will release all papers identified in the review, in line with the Freedom of Information Act. The papers will be released to Lord Archer's inquiry as quickly as possible, in batches on a monthly basis.

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Contamination (14 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...related to this time period, just under 10 per cent. fell outside this timeline. Lord Archer has been advised that the Department will release all papers identified in the review, in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The papers will be released to Lord Archer's inquiry as quickly as possible, in batches on a monthly basis.

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Contamination (12 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...publicly available, and approximately 42 per cent. of these have been identified as relating to HIV/AIDS. Lord Archer has been advised that we propose to release these documents in line with the Freedom of Information Act.

Written Answers — Health: Members: Correspondence (12 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...in the review. An additional 4,600 documents were identified during the review, including those relating to HIV/AIDS, and it has been agreed that these documents will be released in line with the Freedom of Information Act. Numerous documents are already in the public domain. The issue of AIDS and licensed blood products was discussed at the Committee on Safety of Medicines Sub-Committee...

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Contamination (7 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: The papers returned to the Department by solicitors have already been released in line with the Freedom of Information Act, and are in the public domain. The Department has given an undertaking to release all the papers held on the issue of blood safety between 1970-85. The papers returned from solicitors and the references to the report "Self Sufficiency in Blood Products in England and...

Written Answers — Health: Haemophilia: Blood Transfusions (22 Feb 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...funded by the Department, into the epidemiology and chronic sequelae of factor VIII and IX associated hepatitis in the United Kingdom. Papers in connection to this study have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. In February last year, the Department published the report "Self Sufficiency in Blood Products in England and Wales", which provides a summary on the issue of...

Written Answers — Health: Haemophilia (21 Feb 2007)

Caroline Flint: .... All the documents were reviewed by independent counsel, before they were sent to officials in the Department. The vast majority of these documents (604 in total) were released in line with the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. The documents were sent to a number of individuals at their request and to the Haemophilia Society. Some documents were withheld under FOI. However, officials...

Written Answers — Health: Abortion (2 Dec 2005)

Caroline Flint: No assessment has been made on whether any exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 would apply to these files.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (1 Dec 2005)

Caroline Flint: holding answer 29 November 2005 We have received a Freedom of Information request from the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association for the minutes of these meetings and departmental Officials are currently working on this.

MR. Giles Carlyle-Clarke (24 Mar 2005)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...asked in recent weeks that specific papers in relation to the case should be disclosed to them. The hon. Gentleman repeated that request again this evening. The request is being considered under the freedom of information procedures, but questions to do with international relations require further analysis before we respond, which we are trying to do as quickly as possible. There is...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Animals (Scientific Procedure Licences) (23 Feb 2005)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...been granted. This will help to implement a key recommendation of the House of Lords Select Committee, and will also meet the requirements of the Home Office Publication Scheme approved under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We expect that a licence abstract in each case will cover points of general interest to the lay reader. These might include the expected benefits of the project,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Animal Welfare (20 Oct 2004)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...openness about the use of animals in scientific procedures by publishing anonymised information about projects licensed under the 1986 Act as part of the Home Office publication scheme under the Freedom of Information Act. This can be done without repealing section 24 and will entail the publication of abstracts of project licences on the Home Office website. We expect to publish the first...

Written Answers — Home Department: Animal Experimentation (4 Oct 2004)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...are pressing ahead with plans to publish anonymised information about projects licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 as part of the Home Office publication scheme under the Freedom of Information Act. All new project license applicants will be required to provide the information for publication as part of the licence application process—so it will be mandatory...

Animal Rights Extremists (7 Jul 2004)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...easy for the people concerned. On 1 July, we announced the outcome of our review of section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in the context of the Government's commitment to freedom of information. Section 24 of the 1986 Act prevents the unauthorised disclosure of confidential information by Home Office Ministers, officials and others with functions under the Act. It...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (1 Jul 2004)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...and provides a maximum punishment of two years imprisonment and a fine for unauthorised disclosure of information. The Government undertook to review section 24 in the context of our commitment to freedom of information. The conflicting views expressed about section 24 in the course of the review have shown it to be a complex and contentious issue that does not lend itself to a decision...

Written Answers — Home Department: Animal Experiments (27 Apr 2004)

Ms Caroline Flint: ...and their establishments, or their legitimate commercial and intellectual interests. We have undertaken to review all statutory bars to the disclosure of information as part of our commitment to freedom of information, including section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, the so-called 'confidentiality clause'. Section 24 makes the unauthorised disclosure of confidential...

Public Bill Committee: Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords]: Clause 80 ordered to stand part of the Bill. - Clause 81 - Inspection of overseas information systems (19 Jun 2003)

Ms Caroline Flint: .... The hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) gave a helpful introduction. To make the matter clear from the outset, the commissioner referred to is the Information Commissioner. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gave the existing role of Data Commissioner new powers and changed the name to Information Commissioner. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, any function of the...