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[Mr. Greg Pope in the Chair] — Service Complaints Commissioner (22 Apr 2009)

Lembit Öpik: ...is on the record, but the report has not been published, nor have we had the inquiry. When will the Minister ensure that one or other of those takes place? I have tried time and again to use the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to have the Devon and Cornwall police report released, but it has not been released. It is in the public interest to get to the heart of why the four recruits died...

Orders of the Day: Clause 1 — Exemption of House of Commons and House of Lords (18 May 2007)

Lembit Öpik: ...of a Devon and Cornwall police report on Surrey police's handling of the death of the daughter of one of my constituents. The Government have not been forthcoming in helping me to use existing freedom of information legislation to get that information. Does she not understand that our personal experiences—such as mine in relation to Deepcut—of the mood music coming from the...

Orders of the Day: Clause 1 — Exemption of House of Commons and House of Lords (18 May 2007)

Lembit Öpik: ...years now I have tried to obtain information about the deaths at Deepcut Army barracks, especially in regard to Cheryl James, the daughter of two of my constituents? I have found that the existing Freedom of Information Act 2000 is virtually toothless in those attempts. Is my hon. Friend attempting to preserve what little freedom of information we actually have, and is he—like...

Orders of the Day — Inquiries Bill [Lords] (15 Mar 2005)

Mr Lembit Öpik: ...took a constructive approach in listening to the arguments advanced by my noble Friend Lord Goodhart and people on the Conservative Benches in favour of bringing the Bill under the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. It is now clear from the Bill that the power to withhold information does not override that Act—another significant improvement made in the other place. On the...

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