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Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills: Science Budget (7 Jul 2008) has video

Phil Willis: ...robust appraisal" during the allocation process. The Minister must recognise that those are not sensible rebuttals. Commercial sensitivity did not prevent the release of most of the information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and, if that is an issue, DIUS should be able to release the documents as a matter of course, with steps taken to remove commercially confidential...

Freedom of Information (Fees Regulation) (7 Feb 2007)

Phil Willis: .... The hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) mentioned the Yorkshire Post and the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) has just mentioned cost saving. The reality is that many freedom of information requests made by the Yorkshire Post have pulled out from local authorities, particularly police authorities, huge expenses that have been squandered—£28,000 for a...

Freedom of Information (Fees Regulation) (7 Feb 2007)

Phil Willis: All that came out, and only because of freedom of information.

Freedom of Information (Fees Regulation) (7 Feb 2007)

Phil Willis: ...regulation straight away. Secondly, and even worse, if one includes an aggregation of requests, one will have to notify the deciding officer about the individual making the request. The principle of freedom of information is that requests are considered blind and that they are not aggregated. The senior officers in, for example, a police authority about which I am concerned in North...

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