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Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Afghanistan: Detainees (26 Nov 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...of Lords, column WA58, on Afghanistan: witness protection, for what reasons the assurances from the US Administration referred to in the answer were not included in his Department's response to the Freedom of Information request from the hon. Member for Chichester of 25 September 2008.

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Ministers and Civil Servants (30 Oct 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...service that instilled enough trust to enable robust discussions to take place in complete confidentiality. Incidentally, that is why when the Select Committee discussed the Bill that became the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I disagreed with the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright), who was the Chairman at that time as well, on one area. I felt that policy discussions should...

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Ministers and Civil Servants (30 Oct 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...front of the Minister, rather than being channelled and funnelled through intermediaries, such as advisers. Hon. Members might say, "What sort of remedy could there possibly be with such a clause?" Freedom of information could help there and could establish whether the fact of advice, rather than its content, was ever received or looked at by a Minister. This Prime Minister, when he was...

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Ministers and Civil Servants (30 Oct 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...of the type that he has suggested. On the first, he is absolutely right to say that he was prepared to put in some limits in relation to policy advice, but he also wanted some scrutiny of it under freedom of information and I resisted that. I am surprised that he is so sensitive about that. I cannot remember all the ones that he has just mentioned. On a civil service Act and an...

Public Bill Committee: Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill: Clause 22 - Rewards (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Andrew Tyrie: ...Paymaster General confirms that. I am surprised that this information has never found its way into the public domain. I think that sooner or later somebody will start asking for this stuff under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, but I do not think we need to go down that road. It is possible that one of the questions I have asked, for some reason that I do not know, is an unreasonable...

Standard Life (FSA Regulation) (4 Feb 2004)

Mr Andrew Tyrie: ...of order by the Table Office. I wonder in passing whether we need to examine our rules to find how we could introduce more flexibility to the way in which we table written questions, given that the Freedom of Information Act 2000 will make it much quicker and more sensible from 2005 to put a letter in the public domain that would require an answer. The immediate reasons why we are having...

Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill: Independent Body (29 Feb 2000)

Mr Andrew Tyrie: ...clause 1 and other means by which to obtain much of the information. So much information is technical and requires judgment and a great deal of expertise to analyse it that, even with an effective Freedom of Information Act, which we do not have, or powerful judicial review, I am not convinced that we would get the benefits that new clause 1 would provide. In the absence of new clause 1,...