Results 1-6 of 6 for "freedom of information" speaker:David Willetts
- Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: Higher Education (14 Oct 2009) has video
David Willetts: ...like to hear from the Minister a response to the following practical questions. First, how many students are still affected by the problem? There was a figure of 50,000 at one point. We have seen from a freedom of information request that there seems to be a gap between the 1,092,000 applications for student support across all three years and the 916,000 that have been processed. That...
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Skills in the Recession (18 May 2009) has video
David Willetts: ...a Department in which senior officials are aware from April, possibly February, that they have an unaffordable set of capital commitments—we know from the minutes, which I obtained through freedom of information requests, that members of the Department's top management team attended the meetings—and the Secretary of State seems to have been kept in ignorance for six months?...
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Skills in the Recession (18 May 2009) has video
David Willetts: ...; in fact, we are about to have another one, and still there is no sign of the Secretary of State volunteering any information. At every stage, the information has had to be secured by us, making freedom of information requests, tabling written questions and calling debates. It is a pity that at no point has he felt able to come to the House to volunteer information in Government time...
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Skills in the Recession (18 May 2009) has video
David Willetts: Let me make some more progress. The problem is worse than that, however. We know, from the freedom of information requests that we have made and from the minutes that we have read, that the "no bad news" culture spread as far as giving deliberately misleading accounts of what happened at some of the crucial meetings of the Learning and Skills Council. The minutes of the meeting on 17...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Innovation, Universities and Skills: Unemployment (New Skills) (12 Mar 2009) has video
David Willetts: ...statement, that 144 will be affected. He said that he had invited Sir Andrew Foster to explain to him what went wrong. Will he confirm the details in the LSC's minutes, which we have obtained with a freedom of information request, that senior officials from his Department attended every meeting of the LSC when the capital moratorium was discussed, and that it was specifically concluded at...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Scott Report (25 Mar 1996)
Mr David Willetts: ...further into the public domain. Those words explain the reason for Governments of all parties hitherto refraining from making civil service advice to Ministers generally publicly available. As to a freedom of information Act, the crucial question is what exclusions there would be. We know that many such Acts around the world, such as that which operates in the United States of America,...