Results 1-20 of 93 for "freedom of information" speaker:Julian Lewis

Members' Home Addresses (28 Apr 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: ...misbehaviour by a political opponent. Last year, I began my campaign to neutralise the extraordinary decision of three High Court judges that MPs' home addresses should be revealed in response to freedom of information requests. In part, the judges based their ruling on the fact that all general election candidates had been required since the late 19th century to disclose a home address on...

Members' Home Addresses (28 Apr 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: ...about his own conduct, his sole response being to accuse me of trying to "intimidate" him by posing such questions. That is irony indeed, coming from a man who has to date put in no fewer than 16 freedom of information requests to the House of Commons, 12 of which directly relate to me and my staff. He has refused to say, inter alia, why he used the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to...

Members' Home Addresses (28 Apr 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: ...to my house in my constituency. That had never been published before, but it had been disclosed by the House of Commons to Terry Scriven and to nobody else on 11 July 2008, at the same time as his freedom of information request for my home address in London was rightly rejected. As Mr. Scriven never responds to any questions that I put to him, other than to accuse me of trying to...

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Julian Lewis: I warmly welcome the non-partisan way in which the hon. Gentleman is approaching the subject, but on never diluting the Freedom of Information Act and never making an exception, may I remind him of the important point that was made by the Leader of the House? An exemption to the Act was made in respect of MPs because of the insane decision by the High Court that our home addresses should be...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (15 Dec 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: The Home Secretary will remember the House's overwhelming support for the idea that hon. Members' home addresses should not be revealed in response to freedom of information requests. A consultation, organised by her colleagues in the Ministry of Justice, is under way on whether such addresses should be replaced by just the first half of the postcode, which, at election times, could be...

Orders of the Day: Political Parties and Elections Bill (20 Oct 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: ..., and from a campaign earlier this year. As we are all aware, on 16 May three judges, in their wisdom, ruled that the private home addresses of hon. Members should be published in response to freedom of information requests. That led to a great deal of heart-searching, anguish and concern on the part of Members, 256 of whom signed an early-day motion stating that their home addresses...

Points of Order: Summer Adjournment (22 Jul 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: This is a rather personal speech, and I apologise for that. Shortly after it became clear that we had won the campaign to prevent MPs' home addresses from being disclosed as a result of future freedom of information requests, an honourable Labour lady Member who had suffered badly from the disclosure of her address approached me with a warning. She said, "Be careful Julian, you will be...

Bill Presented: Freedom of Information (17 Jul 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: ...: "Why has Julian Lewis, MP for New Forest, East, attacked the decision to disclose details of MPs' homes? He has access to our home details through the nation census and other government data. The freedom of information process was brought in by the government, so he should respect it." At the bottom of the letter, a little note states that not only the writer's address, but his name has...

Bill Presented: Freedom of Information (17 Jul 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: ...idiot scribblers on The Sunday Telegraph could understand that our action has nothing to do with expenses and everything to do with security. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That the draft Freedom of Information (Parliament and National Assembly for Wales) Order 2008, which was laid before this House on 15th July, be approved.

Business of the House (10 Jul 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: That fine newspaper of record, The Sunday Telegraph, found plenty of space to attack me last week over the freedom of information matter concerning the publication of Members' home addresses, but curiously found no space at all to record the fact that the House had unanimously passed the resolution that those addresses should not be disclosed. I am sure that that had nothing to do with the...

Written Answers — Women and Equality: Departmental Disclosure of Information (7 Jul 2008)

Julian Lewis: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality whether it is her Department's policy to release the home addresses of (a) senior and (b) middle-ranking officials, if requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and what assessment she has made of the implications for personal security resulting from the release of such data.

Bill Presented: Members' Expenses (3 Jul 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: ...put some of it on the record. The Information Commissioner states that his office "has consistently taken a cautious approach towards the disclosure of home addresses, whether in the context of the Freedom of Information Act or otherwise. In most cases, an address is an individual's personal data and is protected by the Data Protection Act. None of the Freedom of Information decisions...

Written Answers — Justice: Members: Correspondence (16 Jun 2008)

Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what account the Minister of State with responsibility for Freedom of Information took of the security implications of disclosure of people's home addresses in preparing the letter dated 2 June to the hon. Member for New Forest, East on such disclosure; whether the security implications were considered as a factor in refusing disclosure of judges'...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Freedom of Information (13 Jun 2008)

Julian Lewis: ...of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether it is the policy of his Department to release the home addresses of (a) senior and (b) middle-ranking officials, if requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and what assessment he has made of the implications for personal security resulting from the release of such data.

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Freedom of Information (12 Jun 2008)

Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is her Department's policy to release the home addresses of (a) senior and (b) middle-ranking officials, if requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and what assessment she has made of the implications for personal security resulting from the release of such data.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (10 Jun 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: I am sure that the whole House will be as dismayed as I was that the Minister with responsibility for freedom of information turned down my request for judges' homes addresses to be released on the same day as those of Members of Parliament. He said that that was because "High Court judges...are entitled to a private life and levels of privacy that accord with this", and that releasing their...

Written Answers — Treasury: Departmental Freedom of Information (10 Jun 2008)

Julian Lewis: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is his policy to release the home addresses of (a) senior and (b) middle-ranking officials, if requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and what assessment he has made of the implications for personal security resulting from the release of such data.

Written Answers — Justice: Freedom of Information (9 Jun 2008)

Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he has received the Freedom of Information requests from (a) the hon. Member for New Forest East and (b) Mr Colin Smith respectively requesting that the home addresses of (i) all High Court judges and (ii) the three judges who heard the recent appeal case brought by the House of Commons should be published simultaneously with those of hon....

Business of the House (5 Jun 2008) has video

Julian Lewis: ...and the judges, and that I have just received a letter from the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, the hon. Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills)—the Minister with responsibility for freedom of information—in response to my freedom of information request for the publication of judges' home addresses. In it, he says that he is refusing the request because "High Court...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Disclosure of Information (5 Jun 2008)

Julian Lewis: ...Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether it is his Department's policy to release the home addresses of (a) senior and (b) middle-ranking officials if requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and what assessment he has made of the implications for personal security resulting from the release of such data.