Results 1-20 of 31 for "freedom of information" speaker:John Healey

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Local Government: Gloucestershire (4 Nov 2008)

John Healey: ...to the our "Invitation to Councils", issued in October 2006, to submit unitary proposals and our records show no correspondence with the county council about unitary authority status, other than a freedom of information request in 2006 for information about representations received on the unitary issue. The information requested was provided.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Local Authorities: Data Protection (3 Nov 2008)

John Healey: A councillor has the same rights to information held by a local authority as a member of the public, under the Freedom of Information Act. In addition, councillors have a right under the Local Government Act 1972 to inspect documents in the local authority's possession. Exceptions to this right do exist, for instance, information relating to individuals. Finally councillors have a common law...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Interreg Programme (16 Jul 2008)

John Healey: For the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, bodies with a registered office in the United Kingdom set up under the provisions of the European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation Regulations 2007 are not designated as public authorities.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Local Authorities: Freedom of Information (25 Apr 2008)

John Healey: ...regime for the provision of information by local authorities, which are also subject to a range of other legislative provision and case law on information, including The Data Protection Act 1998 The Freedom of Information Act 2000 Environment Information Regulations 2004 These statutory provisions give extensive rights of public access to local authority information. In addition to these...

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

John Healey: .... I should say that we have not disclosed the detail of the independent financial assessment; that was conducted as advice to Ministers and was therefore covered by section 35 as an exemption from freedom of information requirements. However, I have made clear the principal conclusions of the assessment. In the view of the independent experts, the transition costs were certainly greater...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Clause 45 (24 Jan 2008)

John Healey: ...could require minutes of the commission’s meetings or the advice that it will give to potential applicants to be made available to all parties. The commission will, of course, be subject to freedom of information legislation and to the powers of the ombudsman over questions of administration. I think that the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst will accept that there is rightly...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Clause 32 (22 Jan 2008)

John Healey: ...system, and it will be able to call the chair of the commission to give evidence before it—something that I am sure all members of the Committee expect to happen. The commission will be subject to freedom of information provisions and, in the case of maladministration, to the parliamentary commissioner for administration. Ultimately, the Secretary of State can remove a commissioner...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Clause 1 (15 Jan 2008)

John Healey: ...to hear from it directly. It would be able, therefore, to call the chair of the commission and the commission to account for their work and the decisions that they take. The IPC will be subject to freedom of information legislation. It will be subject to investigation, should the circumstances arise, by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration. Ultimately, the Secretary of State...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Parish Councils: Audit (25 Oct 2007)

John Healey: ...and 16 of the 1998 Act in June 2006. The representations in relation to section 15 asked for the section to be repealed, arguing that persons can already obtain information from auditors under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The representations in relation to section 16 asked for the section to be repealed, arguing that the right to make objections at audit is more efficiently met in...

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 5 — Boundary Committee's powers (24 Oct 2007) has video

John Healey: ...and service users. I can tell the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed that we have released the information that he requested. We have done so properly and in accordance with the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. We have not released certain information that we should not release. We will publish shortly a summary of the responses to the consultation process. As I said earlier,...

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 5 — Boundary Committee's powers (24 Oct 2007) has video

John Healey: The information that we have not released is precisely as the right hon. Gentleman has just described—that is, advice to Ministers. By convention, and under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, such information is not necessarily disclosable. If the information assessment analysis of the proposals found that the single unitary authority for Northumberland did not meet the five...

Written Answers — Treasury: Managed Service Companies (2 May 2007)

John Healey: The Government have received a Freedom of Information request for the same information from the hon. Member. The Treasury is actively considering issues around the confidentiality of the information provided by the respondents to the consultation and will reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Treasury: Census: Freedom of Information (23 Apr 2007)

John Healey: ..., who has been asked to reply. Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 23 April 2007: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many Freedom of Information Act applications were received by ONS for extracts from the 1921 Census between (a) 1st January 2005 and 31st December 2006 and (b) 1st January 2007 and 31st March 2007; and how...

Written Answers — Treasury: Departments: Knowledge Management (15 Mar 2007)

John Healey: Knowledge management involves the improvement of organisational record-keeping, filing systems and processes, and is especially important in efficiently meeting the demands of the Freedom of Information Act and managing the transition to full electronic data storage and management. The Treasury currently employs three individuals on this type of work, one on a part-time basis, and is seeking...

Statistics and Registration Service Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 4 — Non-executive members (13 Mar 2007)

John Healey: ..., because it is our intention to transfer that register from its current home in the Office for National Statistics. Finally, Government amendments Nos. 28, 29, 31, 33 and 32 allow a translation of freedom of information and ombudsman legislation into Scotland, so that the provision for such action in Scotland is consistent with that in England. It being Nine o'clock, Mr. Deputy Speaker...

Written Answers — Treasury: Census (6 Mar 2007)

John Healey: ...what the most recent date was when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) rejected an application for an extract from the 1921 Census for England and Wales on the grounds that Exemption 41 of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 applied to the records. (124113) The last time ONS rejected an application for an extract from the 1921 Census for England and Wales on the grounds that...

Written Answers — Treasury: Departments: Freedom of Information (27 Feb 2007)

John Healey: Statistics on the Treasury's performance under the Freedom of Information Act are available from the House Library and published by the Department for Constitutional Affairs. The most recent publication is available at: http://www.foi.gov.uk/reference/statsAndReports/stats06_jul- sep.htm The data published comply with the agreed reporting requirements for central Government Departments and...

Written Answers — Treasury: Census: Freedom of Information (20 Feb 2007)

John Healey: Exemptions 41 and 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are not disapplied in relation to census records from the 1921, 1951 and 1961 censuses. The information commissioner's recent decision to overrule the use by the National Archives of the exemption in section 41 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for certain information on a 1911 census form was limited to the circumstances of the...

Public Bill Committee: Statistics and Registration Service Bill: Clause 37 (25 Jan 2007)

John Healey: I will not detain the Committee long, but the clause is important because under it the board will be able to refuse to release personal information following a freedom of information request, whereas, in contrast, public authorities that have received personal information from the board might have to release it following such a request. I think that that might require some explanation and...

Written Answers — Treasury: Office for National Statistics (24 Jan 2007)

John Healey: ...been asked to reply. Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 January 2007: As National Statistician I am replying to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the current status is of each of the Freedom of Information applications made to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2006. (110532) The quarterly report Freedom of Information Act 2000, Statistics on the Implementation in...