Results 1-20 of 21 for "freedom of information" speaker:Gordon Prentice

Points of Order (12 Nov 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have in my hands 30 closely typed pages of freedom of information requests going back to 2005 that have not been properly addressed by the Information Commissioner, including one from me that goes back more than one and a half years. What remedy do Members of Parliament have in this situation? Can we bring the Information Commissioner to the Bar of the...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Departmental Freedom of Information (11 Nov 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many freedom of information requests under consideration by the Information Commissioner concern information held by her Department; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Lord Ashcroft (20 Oct 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office on which dates her Department passed material to the Information Commissioner in connection with the Freedom of Information request lodged by the hon. Member for Pendle pertaining to Lord Ashcroft.

Written Answers — Justice: Freedom of Information (9 Sep 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many hon. Members have referred responses to requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to the Information Commission in each of the last three years; and in each case how many such referrals were not resolved after 12 months of consideration.

Bills Presented: Summer Recess Adjournment (21 Jul 2009)

Gordon Prentice: I do not need seven minutes to say what I have to say, which is about delays in investigating freedom of information complaints. Maurice Frankel, the director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, had an interesting piece in The Guardian exactly two weeks ago entitled "A slow and sluggish trudge to transparency—A backlog of cases and a budget shortfall is making the Freedom of...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Lord Ashcroft: Taxation (15 Jul 2009)

Gordon Prentice: ...Minister for the Cabinet Office whether her Department has received provisional recommendations from the Information Commissioner in relation to the request by the hon. Member for Pendle under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for information on the assurances given by Lord Ashcroft on his tax status prior to his elevation to the peerage.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Lord Ashcroft (14 Jul 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many documents her Department has made available to the Information Commissioner in relation to the request by the hon. Member for Pendle under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for information on the assurances given by Lord Ashcroft on his tax status prior to his elevation to the peerage.

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Freedom of Information (24 Feb 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many freedom of information requests refused in whole or in part by his Department are subject to further review by the Information Commissioner.

Lobbying (Whitehall/Westminster) (11 Feb 2009)

Gordon Prentice: ...Farmers Union and the TUC. That list can be accessed at the website, FT.com/lobbyists. My friends on the Public Administration Committee and I take the view that transparency is essential. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 has changed everything. It has changed the way in which we think about information and our rights to it. For Parliament and its procedures still to be shrouded in...

Written Answers — Justice: Freedom of Information (2 Feb 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to increase the budget of the Information Commissioner to assist the processing of reports under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Departmental Freedom of Information (26 Jan 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people who have made requests to his Department under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been waiting for longer than (a) four, (b) eight and (c) 12 months to receive the information they requested.

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Lord Ashcroft (23 Jun 2008)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many freedom of information requests relating to assurances given by Richard Ashcroft on his residency status prior to his elevation to the peerage (a) have received refusals to supply the requested information, (b) are, or have been, subject to internal Cabinet Office review and (c) have been referred to the Information Commissioner.

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Michael Ashcroft (31 Mar 2008)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster when he expects the appeal procedure in respect of the Freedom of Information request from the hon. Member for Pendle in relation to the undertaking given by Michael Ashcroft prior to his elevation to the peerage will be concluded; and if he will make a statement.

Orders of the Day: Disqualification from Parliament (Taxation Status) Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Gordon Prentice: ...the undertaking and to whom that undertaking was given—it is nothing to do with how much tax Lord Ashcroft pays or does not pay—but the Cabinet Secretary has refused my request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The matter is now subject to an internal review, but I fully intend to take this matter to the Information Commissioner. I finish by emphasising that it is...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2007-08: Standards of Conduct in Public Life (5 Dec 2007) has video

Gordon Prentice: ...I could not get the information that I wanted about person X using parliamentary procedures and tabling parliamentary questions. It is bizarre that I, as a Member of Parliament, am forced to use the Freedom of Information Act to try to get the information that I require about person X. We wait to see what happens. I am expecting a reply to my information request in a few weeks. The...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Freedom of Information (23 Oct 2006)

Gordon Prentice: ...answer of 16 October 2006, Official Report, column 582, on Parliamentary Questions, how many requests were made to each Department by hon. Members for information sought using the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the last 12 months.

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Parliamentary Questions (16 Oct 2006)

Gordon Prentice: Does my friend have any idea how many Members are putting in requests under the freedom of information legislation because they are so dissatisfied with the quality of information from Government Departments?

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

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...that he was ignorant of the machinery of government—I am not breaching any confidences, because this is what he told the Select Committee—and had not thought through the implications for freedom of information when he posted emails between Jonathan Powell and Alastair Campbell on the net so that billions of people around the world could see them. He did not realise that that...

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...databases of (a) patients and (b) staff names for the purposes of creating a membership register; (2) when he expects to issue advice on the implications of the (a) Data Protection Act 1998 and (b) Freedom of Information Act 2000 on the (i) compilation and (ii) use of membership registers of NHS foundation trusts.

Oral Answers to Questions — President of the Council: Privy Council (20 Jul 1998)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...vires of Acts of the new Scottish Parliament. What is the point of the secrecy of the oath that is sworn by Privy Councillors, and how does such secrecy square with the Government's commitment to freedom of information? Is it not about time that we shone a light into this secret corner of the constitution?