Results 1-12 of 12 for "freedom of information" speaker:Peter Luff

Point of Order (11 Mar 2009) has video

Peter Luff: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I want to point out my concern, which I hope is shared by the House, that it seems easier to get information from the Government through freedom of information requests, which would work for my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman), than through written questions. That is a very worrying development.

Written Answers — Justice: Members: Correspondence (17 Nov 2008)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to reply to the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire's letter of 1 August on the length of time taken to respond to a freedom of information request regarding Titan prisons for Wychavon District Council made on 25 April 2008.

[Mr. Eric Martlew in the Chair] — Housing (18 Dec 2007)

Peter Luff: ...infrastructure and damaging the environment. We do not know what criteria the Government are using to assess the eco-towns. We do not know how big they are going to be. We know nothing about them. Freedom of information requests have failed and parliamentary questions have produced very little. Three district councils are trying to plan their joint core strategy and their infrastructure,...

Public Bill Committee: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 (7 Feb 2007)

Peter Luff: Do I understand my hon. Friend to say that he is seeking absolute clarity on this point? I am interested by a letter I received from the Campaign for Freedom of Information by e-mail this morning. It says: “If correspondence containing personal data about identifiable constituents have been released then, on the face of it, this information is already exempt under section 40(2).”...

Public Bill Committee: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 (7 Feb 2007)

Peter Luff: .... Recently, information that I passed in relation to one case led to prosecutions and successful convictions. The individual who passed that information to me needs the guarantee of total anonymity. A freedom of information request could destroy that guarantee.

Written Parliamentary Questions (28 Jun 2006)

Peter Luff: ...trend continues, there is a genuine risk that Parliament will be even more marginalised in our society than it is already, as people who really want to know the answer to questions opt to use the Freedom of Information Act 2000 instead of looking to Members of Parliament to use parliamentary questions—another nail in the coffin of our effectiveness. A constituent once berated me,...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Wychavon District Council (19 Jan 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: ...Supporting People programme, (d) deregulation of building control services, (e) ending of Market Towns Initiative funding, (f) ending of Local Government On-Line funding and (g) compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000; (2) what account he took in setting the revenue support grant for Wychavon District Council for 2004–05, of cost pressures on the council flowing from (a)...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Economic and Monetary Union: Taxes and Duties (6 Jul 1999)

Mr Peter Luff: ...makes the House and the country suspicious of the Government's motive in seeking to conceal the information from the House and the people. The Government have laboured mightily to bring forth their freedom of information proposals and they have been widely criticised. Surely, they do not want to hide information, but they are acquiring a reputation for doing so. Rejection of the amendment...

Opposition Day: Select Committees (Information) (7 Jul 1998)

Mr Peter Luff: ...implication of the issues that we are discussing and my Committee has been faced with that dilemma. The Government have established an inquiry into bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which has won a freedom of information award, of which Sir Nicholas Phillips is rightly very proud, for use of the internet. I regularly follow the BSE inquiry on the internet: it is a fine inquiry, but it...

Orders of the Day — Public Interest Disclosure Bill (1 Mar 1996)

Mr Peter Luff: ...sincerely. Some would argue that the Bill is but a tiny part of a wholesale package of reform that is necessary to tackle that culture of secrecy. I know that many hon. Members support the idea of a freedom of information Act. It is the duty of the House to protect as best it can the rights of every British citizen; that is what we are here to do. That is why, originally, I welcomed the...

Orders of the Day — Right to Know Bill: Presumption in Favour of Access (2 Jul 1993)

Mr Peter Luff: ...—I know that the hon. Gentleman will think that I am being disingenuous, but I am not—but my reservations tend to mount as we consider its later clauses. We all support the principle of freedom of information. The Government share that commitment, as I am sure my hon. Friend the Minister will make clear when he speaks. It is right that we should pause and reflect on whether...

Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill: Considered in Committee [Progress, 19 April] (21 Apr 1993)

Mr Peter Luff: ...referendum is already being conducted. There are six questions, not one, on the ballot paper. The first is indeed about Maastricht; another is about the principle of a referendum; another is about a freedom of information Bill. There is also a question about the use of urban rather than rural land for development, and the last two are about live animal transport and hunting with hounds. I...