Results 1-20 of 20 for "freedom of information" speaker:Tony McNulty

Written Answers — Home Department: Police National Computer: Personal Records (25 Apr 2008)

Tony McNulty: The Data Protection Commissioner was superseded by the Information Commissioner on 30 January 2001, as a consequence of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am not aware of any representations received from the Information Commissioner on the accuracy, number and percentage of criminal records with inaccuracies held on the police national computer. Each criminal record is owned by the...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill (22 Apr 2008)

Tony McNulty: The freedom of information request will be treated in the appropriate fashion, but I assure you and the Committee that seven, 14, 28 days and these proposals are entirely ECHR compatible. [ Interruption. ] The giggles from the lawyers from the Opposition party aside, it is.

Points of Order: Police Grant (4 Feb 2008)

Tony McNulty: ...in the room—we will do all that we can to work with them, but that work needs to take place within a framework. My hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) mentioned a freedom of information request regarding Cheshire and its particular circumstances. If it relates to police authorities rather than local government reorganisation, and if she wants to pursue it...

Written Answers — Home Department: Vehicle Number Plates: Legal Opinion (26 Jun 2007)

Tony McNulty: ...police is cognisant of the relevant data protection legislation. The ACPO guidance is designed to ensure that the principles detailed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are followed by all police forces.

Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Databases (6 Jun 2007)

Tony McNulty: ...recorded on the Police National Computer partly in preparation for the establishment of the Criminal Records Bureau. The reports and a supplementary report were released in 2006 in response to a Freedom of Information request. The report to Lord Falconer was in the form of advice to Ministers and as is the convention, such advice is not published.

Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Freedom of Information (19 Mar 2007)

Tony McNulty: holding answer 13 March 2007 It is for each individual relevant public authority to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Home Department: Freedom of Information (7 Feb 2007)

Tony McNulty: The police may turn down a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 under any of the exemptions, other than Section 35.

Written Answers — Home Department: Freedom of Information (29 Nov 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...basis at which time they provide him with an update on the Department's answering of written parliamentary questions. (b) The Home Office possesses several sets of guidance on the handling of Freedom of Information requests to reflect local procedures in some parts of the Department and its executive agencies. The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND), HM Prison Service, Criminal...

Written Answers — Home Department: Guantanamo Bay (5 Jul 2006)

Tony McNulty: Hon. Members can either write to the relevant Minister to request material, or make a request to the relevant public body under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Foreign Secretary leads on most matters concerning prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Access to classified material may be refused in the interests of safeguarding national security

Written Answers — Home Department: Police Information (19 Jun 2006)

Tony McNulty: ...Retention of information must also be in line with relevant legislation including the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (Medical Care) (9 Mar 2006)

Tony McNulty: All requests for information concerning the clinical governance of medical and dental services provided in removal centres will be fully considered in accordance with IND's obligations under the Freedom of Information Act. Information will only be withheld if it falls within one of the exemptions contained in the Act.

Written Answers — Transport: Freedom of Information (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Tony McNulty: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, all public authorities have a publication scheme that gives details of the classes of information that an authority makes available proactively and how they are accessible. Guidance on publication schemes, issued by the Department for Constitutional Affairs in July 2002, recommended that where information is disclosed to an individual in response to...

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 32 - References to the ORR (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony McNulty: Welcome back, Mr. Amess, to our deliberations. On the point about freedom of information and the ORR, the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) is entirely right: it is a public body and will have to conform with the freedom of information regime. That means that all is disclosable unless it meets any of the assorted exceptions. Network Rail is not, as I said this morning, subject in that...

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 33 - Closure requirements (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...right hon. Gentleman in spirit, but not in practice because I do not think that the amendment is necessary. As I have already said, the ORR, as a public body, will be under a duty in relation to the Freedom of Information Act. If Members think it through, they will realise that when the ORR issues a notice, it is unlikely that it will want to do so other than publicly and transparently....

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 26 - Proposal by operator to close passenger network (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...operations, which are dealt with elsewhere, as are non-franchised operators or services on particular lines.   Despite Network Rail being in the private sector, and therefore excluded from the freedom of information provision that covers public sector bodies, there is sufficient in the Bill to demand that all licence holders must give us the full information necessary to make the...

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 22 - Proposal by service operator to discontinue non-franchised services (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...private sector body. I will not reopen the debate on the demise of Railtrack and the creation of Network Rail, but I point out that it is a private sector body and therefore does not come under the freedom of information regime. As he knows, that regime is principally for public sector bodies. We will do all we can on the performance end to ensure that more and more information is put into...

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Schedule 5 - Rail Passengers' Council Established By S. 19(1) (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...is foreseen that the minutes will be sent electronically. We have gone beyond someone on a bicycle having to wheel round a hard copy for everybody as well. The RPC will continue to operate under a freedom of information regime. The caveats about confidentiality against the body corporate or individual are entirely fair—a stock phrase that is inserted in most Bills these days. I know...

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Schedule 3 - Transfer of safety functions (14 Dec 2004)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...of the regulator when or if certain parts or all of a special report should be forthcoming.  Rather laboriously, I have had to read God knows how many pieces of paper and attend the odd seminar on freedom of information—fun though they are—given that new legislation is coming in January. We are getting to grips with the concept, and I suspect, from my limited knowledge of...

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 1 - Transfer etc. of SRA functions and abolition (14 Dec 2004)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...on the hon. Gentleman purely to answer the question asked by his hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster, rather than speaking again once he concludes. In the context of freedom of information and the caveats that I mentioned earlier about personal circumstances and personal conditions, I should say that if I can make public the compensation packages and announce  ...

Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Bill: Information on Accidents Involving Uncertificated Vehicles (21 May 1999)

Mr Tony McNulty: ...North-West Norfolk that the information should be accessible to anyone at public cost and that it should be on the internet is nonsense. It is one of the most absurd reasons that I have heard for freedom of information. Frankly, it undermines genuine, serious arguments in support of that. I also have difficulty with the notion that, somehow, we should narrow the scope of new clause 1 to...