Results 1-5 of 5 for "freedom of information" speaker:Gerald Kaufman

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: FOI Requests (14 Jun 2006)

Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the disclosure of personal information from the 1911 census have been received by the National Archives since 29 January 2006; and what the outcome was in cases where the applicants provided documentary evidence that all the 1911 residents of a specific property...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: National Archives Website (3 May 2006)

Gerald Kaufman: ..., Department for Constitutional Affairs if she will take steps to ensure that the National Archives History National Curriculum website makes it clear for teachers and pupils that Schedule 5 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 abolished the Lord Chancellor's Instrument No. 12 of 1966 and the 100-year Census closure rule as of 1 January 2005.

Freedom of Information Draft Bill (24 May 1999)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the response to his statement today by Opposition Front Benchers was absolutely mind-blowing for those of us who spent 18 years trying to get a Freedom of Information Bill passed, but watched the Tories vote down any attempts to pass such a Bill? As long ago as the 1983 Parliament, as shadow Home Secretary, I made the passage of one such Bill the official...

Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords] (16 Feb 1987)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...industry, the IBA and all the others who have helpful proposals to make to ensure that this highly important process of allocation of franchises is more appropriate to a democratic society, in which freedom of information should extend to the activities of public bodies. The Bill could be dangerous as an Act in the hands of a Conservative Government. However, it will be of great...

Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill (30 Jan 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...to be benevolent, it is often inadequate. Where it claims to be innocuous, it is often dangerous. Yet what an opportunity the Government had. Britain lags behind other countries in being without any real freedom of information legislation. Britain is woefully inadequate in its legislation to protect privacy. The Bill, as well as advancing trade, could have been a long-awaited freedom of...