Results 1-8 of 8 for "freedom of information" speaker:Paul Flynn

Point of Order (21 Jan 2009) has video

Paul Flynn: ..., 75 days after the final day on which we could raise objections. In the Adjournment debate, the Minister said that that was simply a clerical error. Now, 140 pages have been released under freedom of information legislation, many of them heavily censored, but it is clear from them that this was a deliberate, calculated attempt to ensure that the House was not informed about the decision...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (26 Nov 2008)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the proposed new Parent Body Organisation for Sellafield led by URS Washington Group is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Afghanistan (9 Jan 2007)

Paul Flynn: .... It was meant to be paid to them in compensation, but it disappeared in what for the past two centuries has been the endemically corrupt system of government in Afghanistan—there is a long history of that. Freedom of information investigations have turned up some of the documents that were needed for the Taliban farmers whose crops were destroyed in 2003 to receive the compensation...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Rural Strategy (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...the present scheme and whether those individuals will continue to receive the same subsidies under the decoupled scheme? Although such matters are private—unfortunately, they do not fall under freedom of information legislation—it has been speculated that one individual in this country gets £20 million a year in subsidy and that a number of others get more than £10...

Oral Answers to Questions — Freedom of Information (1 Apr 1998)

Mr Paul Flynn: What recent representations he has had on his freedom of information proposals. [35803]

Oral Answers to Questions — Freedom of Information (1 Apr 1998)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...about an accident that occurred in my constituency, and that information about a death from mustard gas in my constituency in 1943 was obtained only through the United States navy? Now that a freedom of information Act is on the way, will my right hon. Friend tell the House what he intends to do, before the Bill is considered in the House, to ensure that we have improved freedom of...

Orders of the Day — Right to Know Bill (19 Feb 1993)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...put down a similar question in Congress and the answer was provided within a fortnight, because the base in question is American. Surely that is nonsense. It illustrates the difference between the freedom of information provided in America and that given here. Does not that diminish the role of the House and its Members?

Sellafield (Discharge) (15 Feb 1993)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...the atmosphere when it was a bomb factory. There has been a history of deception by the nuclear industry in Britain. Why do the Government not come clean and turn up on Friday to vote for a genuine freedom of information Act?