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Estimates Day: HM Customs and Excise (6 Jul 2000): Mr Michael Spicer: ...reached. It was a serious matter to us. We felt that we should have been allowed to look at the report on the question of merger. We say in paragraph 22: It is extremely disappointing that, as the Freedom of Information Bill began its passage through Parliament, Customs and Excise refused us access to a six year old report on a matter of departmental organisation central to our present...
Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000): Mr Michael Spicer: ...report that has been kept secret and unpublished, and specifically refers to the context that my right hon. Friend described. The reports states: It is extremely disappointing that, as the Freedom of Information Bill began its passage through Parliament, Customs and Excise refused us access to a six year old report on a matter of departmental organisation central to our present inquiry,...
Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000): Mr Michael Spicer: .... If that had been said, we could have considered it. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) is right to say that, despite the hoo-hah and hot air that surrounds the Freedom of Information Bill, six-years-old papers of no party political import are suppressed. Those papers were drafted by the previous Administration, and the Government probably believe that...

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