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Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000): Mr Oliver Letwin: ...is the duty differential. All the Opposition ask this evening is something that this Government, of all Governments, are bound to concede, being as they are so deeply devoted to the principle of freedom of information. We ask that they do not proceed with further duty increases until they bring before the House a clear and distinct report on the relationship between smuggling and duty.
Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill: Subsidy for Public Post Offices (18 Apr 2000): Mr Oliver Letwin: If my right hon. Friend pursues this line of inquiry, is he not worried that the Secretary of State will bring forward further measures in another place to amend this Bill to prevent the Freedom of Information Bill applying to it?
Clause 96: Designation of Grammar Schools (24 Mar 1998): Mr Oliver Letwin: ...may imagine under the clause, given the human rights legislation that they promote? I cannot imagine, in the light of human rights legislation, the many things that the Government have said about freedom of information and the whole tenor of their rhetoric, that they genuinely intend to argue that free speech on these matters should be prevented by law. This must therefore be a case of...

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