Results 1-8 of 8 for "freedom of information" speaker:Alex Salmond

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Child Protection (Inter-agency information) (3 Sep 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...country. The concentration that the Government and the ministerial team are putting into the issue is very substantial indeed. The issue has been discussed—I think that a question under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 asked about this—at innumerable Cabinet meetings, and rightly so given the importance of the subject. However, let us remember that there are no...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: National Health Service General Practitioner Contract (7 Jun 2007)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...previous Government to start citing a report that it kept under wraps so that the Parliament could not see it is the most extraordinary development. However, I welcome Ross Finnie's conversion to freedom of information.

Point of Order: Scotland (Oil and Gas Resources) (6 Jun 2006)

Alex Salmond: ...Chancellor, however, whether Scottish or new-born English, like his predecessors, wants to keep his mitts on Scotland's resources. The Bill is informed by the past. Recently, through precise and detailed questioning under freedom of information legislation and what has tumbled out under the 30-year rule, we can examine the real story of the 1970s, which one or two hon. Members present can...

Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Alex Salmond: No, I will not take further interventions because I am anxious to complete this point. I smell a debacle. We are informed under the freedom of information legislation that the retreat from the exchange rate mechanism cost £4 billion. I suspect that this debacle will cost double that. In days to come, when the Minister looks back at the wreckage of a once promising parliamentary career,...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time — Scottish executive: UK Parliament (Visits) (23 Mar 2000)

Alex Salmond: When the First Minister next goes to the Westminster Parliament, will he take time to reflect on the claims of the Scottish Executive that the freedom of information legislation going through this Parliament will be better than the freedom of information legislation at Westminster? If that is the case, can he explain why our parliamentary information centre has been unable to obtain key...

Scottish Parliament: Open Question Time — scottish executive: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (9 Dec 1999)

Alex Salmond: ...Parliament, and in which members of parliamentary committees can be rubbished by one of many Government sources as "numpties" when they publish their reports? Will he tell us, in the interests of freedom of information, which of the many Government sources described the Parliament's Health and Community Care Committee in those terms? Does he know, does he care and is he capable of doing...

Scottish Parliament: Open Question Time — scottish executive: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (25 Nov 1999)

Alex Salmond: Well, I will tell the First Minister what he should have been discussing. In these days of freedom of information, I am sure that the First Minister would be delighted to answer questions on the report which appeared in The Herald this morning about a memo entitled "Dealing with the Scottish Parliament: Situation Report". Why are civil servants in the Scottish Executive sending out memos...

Orders of the Day — New clause 28: Register of Concordats (31 Mar 1998)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...in an Adjournment debate. The hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon) asked me whether I could give him a copy of the concordat, which put me in some difficulty, because, although I am committed to freedom of information, I am also committed to not helping the Tory party in any circumstances. There was therefore some tension, which I resolved by saying that I would place a copy in the...