Results 1-14 of 14 for "freedom of information" speaker:Denis MacShane

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Denis MacShane: ...if he can say to me that the letters sent by the Ministry of Defence or the then Prime Minister to the families were acceptable, I will give him even more money to add to his millions. By using the Freedom of Information Act in the United States and by talking directly to American officers, we got to the truth. We were able to bring to a coroner's court at Oxford an American officer who,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: "Digital Britain" (8 Jun 2009) has video

Denis MacShane: ...the public. Mr. Humphrys refused—so some people know how to keep secrets. When a Bill is introduced, will my hon. Friend add a clause obliging the BBC to be subject to the full rigour of the Freedom of Information Act so that we can know everything about pay, allowances and expenses for all areas of BBC employment, including its presenters?

[Mr. Frank Cook in the Chair] — Libel Laws (17 Dec 2008)

Denis MacShane: .... It shames Britain and makes a mockery of the idea that Britain is a protector of core democratic freedoms. Libel tourism sounds innocuous, but underneath the banal phrase is a major assault on freedom of information, which in today's complex world is more necessary than ever if evil, such as the jihad ideology that led to the Mumbai massacres, is not to flourish, and if those who traffic...

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

Denis MacShane: ...do not live at our addresses at weekends or during the holidays. It was even more astonishing when two Law Lords, or two lord justices, upheld his suggestion. What happened calls into question the Freedom of Information Act. Those who want to know where we live can find out. Journalists from The Mail on Sunday forcibly came into my late mother's home when she was suffering from a severe...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Governance of Britain (25 Oct 2007) has video

Denis MacShane: Are we actually at war in Iraq? The Lord Chancellor says that he wants to look at extending the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to a range of organisations that perform public functions. No greater public function is performed than that by the media. Does he think that the 2000 Act should be extended generally to the media, so that we can get an answer to the famous question: quis custodiet...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Freedom of Information (18 Jun 2007)

Denis MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on private firms seeking to use the Freedom of Information legislation to obtain details of management decisions or discussions by primary care trusts and other NHS bodies.

Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (31 Jan 2006)

Denis MacShane: Wearing three hats as a former president of the National Union of Journalists, as someone who has attended many freedom of information trials in different parts of the world and as the current chairman of an all-party inquiry into anti-Semitism, may I point out that the key provision for working journalists is proposed section 29K? It says that someone is not guilty of an offence if their...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service (21 Feb 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...at classifications up to and including secret. It would not be appropriate for the Government to give details of the information which has been released to the centre. Parallel exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act would likely be section 23 (information supplied by, or related to, bodies dealing with security matters), section 24 (national security) and section 27 (international...

Orders of the Day — European Union Bill (9 Feb 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: Since it is 4.33 pm and anything that I say here will remain so secret that not even the Freedom of Information Act 2000 will get it into the public press, may I say that what frightens me, as a Labour politician, more than anything else is the prospect of the Conservative party becoming sensible again on Europe?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Data Protection Act (10 May 2002)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...booklet and Section 3 of the guidance to be placed in the House Library. A revised version of the guidance will be prepared for inclusion in the FCO's Publication Scheme, which is required by the Freedom of Information Act to be in place in November 2002.

Information Society (11 Jul 1997)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...agenda. It is the natural instinct of Conservatives to hoard and guard information. I believe profoundly that one measure that has been missing from the statute book for many years is an effective freedom of information Act. As someone who has been active in the Labour party for some years, I deeply regret that the Labour Administration of the 1970s did not grasp the nettle. If they had,...

Journalistic Corrupt Practices (20 Feb 1996)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...public sphere of information is so limited that journalists turn to private gossip. I hope that, after his Bill is given due consideration, the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding will support a freedom of information Act proposed by Labour Members. Before that, I shall give him and his supporters the opportunity to offer support on Friday week, when my hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn...

China and Hong Kong (27 Apr 1995)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...encourage the civil society in Hong Kong to sink deeper and deeper roots between now and July 1997. I reinforce the importance of what hon. Members on both sides of the House have referred to: freedom of information. Hong Kong is currently our only eyeglass into China. The Far East Economic Review, the Asian Wall Street Journal and other media now operating in Hong Kong provide far more...

Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill (11 Jul 1994)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...every letter to, and from, the Swedish Prime Minister's office; I cannot imagine No. 10 Downing street wanting Lord Archer's billets-doux spread all over the newspapers, but I commend that policy of freedom of information to my hon. and good Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), whose occupancy will begin in a year or two. I salute the struggle undertaken by the Financial Times...