Results 1-13 of 13 for "freedom of information" speaker:Rosie Winterton

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Post Office Card Account (26 Feb 2009)

Rosie Winterton: The normal principles of commercial confidentiality applied by this Department have been published in the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act working assumptions document which is derived from the FOI Act itself. The working assumptions document is available on the Ministry of Justice website under FOI procurement guidance www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/foi-assumptions-procurement.htm.

Written Answers — Health: Departments: Complaints (22 Mar 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...have been dealt with at local level. Since February 2005, there have been two members of staff spending some of their time working on complaints. Complaints about public consultation exercises and Freedom of Information reviews are carried out by specialist units within the Department. The NHS Purchasing and Supply Unit (PASA) has no dedicated staff or units for complaints and complaints...

Written Answers — Health: Mental Health Services: Homicide (19 Feb 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...independent investigation reports, it has produced a list of those commissioned since the Health Service Guideline 94(27) came into force in 1994 to comply with a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The list, which is available in the Library, has been compiled on a best endeavours basis and is as complete as possible but it is likely that there have been...

Written Answers — Health: Freedom of Information Act (23 Mar 2005)

Ms Rosie Winterton: holding answer 17 March 2005 Each national health service organisation is responsible for managing the impacts of changing governance arrangements, including Freedom of Information, within its own boundaries. Information about the detailed management of those governance arrangements is not held centrally.

Written Answers — Health: Freedom of Information Act (21 Mar 2005)

Ms Rosie Winterton: holding answer 17 March 2005 The Department did not make estimates in advance of numbers of Freedom of Information requests likely to be received by organisations in the national health service, as there was no sound basis for doing so.

Written Answers — Health: NHS Performance (2 Mar 2005)

Ms Rosie Winterton: ...information. NHS factsheets are updated regularly. The Department first published these factsheets on its website on 3 December 2004 as part of the Departments commitment to openness under Freedom of Information. They have been available to anybody willing to access the website since then.

Written Answers — Health: Freedom of Information (21 Feb 2005)

Ms Rosie Winterton: ...publication on the Departments website. Information that passes both tests is placed on the website at the same time as it is released to the applicant. We do not place information released under Freedom of Information in the Library unless the applicant specifically asks us to do so. Guidance on publication schemes, issued by the Department for Constitutional Affairs in July 2002,...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Files (10 Jan 2005)

Ms Rosie Winterton: ...in the Department under the guidance and supervision of TNA staff. The Department will also comply with the Code of Practice on Records Management, issued by the Lord Chancellor under S.46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which underlines the importance of having clear selection policies and disposal schedules in place. In accordance with its selection policies and disposal...

Written Answers — Health: Freedom of Information (10 Jan 2005)

Ms Rosie Winterton: The numbers of staff directly employed by the Department to take forward the implementation and application of Freedom of Information Act within the Department, including those budgeted for future years, are shown in the following table. Staff (full-time equivalent) 2001 1.45 2002 2.15 2003 2.35 2004 2.65 2005 3.15 2006 2.55 Other staff are involved in the...

Written Answers — Health: Freedom of Information Act (18 Nov 2004)

Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department has not found it practicable to assess the likely costs of compliance with the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Our strategy has been to prepare staff and provide guidance that will help them to minimise costs. Apart from a small team of FOI specialists, and development of a new correspondence system that will improve overall efficiency as well as helping to monitor FOI...

Written Answers — Lord Chancellor: Census (9 Jun 2003)

Ms Rosie Winterton: ...in the census is paramount. Consequently, it is not intended that the Government's plans to revise legislation relating to greater access to public records, set out in White Paper proposals for a Freedom of Information Act, should affect the current period of closure for census records.'

Written Answers — Lord Chancellor: Green Travel Plans (12 Feb 2002)

Ms Rosie Winterton: ...local authorities is not collected centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. (d) My Department has no green travel plans in place for staff in the Department, as deployed on (i) freedom of information or (ii) data protection and identity. Our green travel plans are specific to individual buildings rather than to any particular group of staff.

Public Bill Committee: Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 96 - Appeals (4 Dec 2001)

Ms Rosie Winterton: ...to make judgments public while protecting the anonymity of the child if it is in the public interest to do so. The Bill makes no change to the law on reporting. The law must strike a balance between freedom of information and protection of the privacy of children. We must remember that we are dealing with adoption cases, not the other cases that we discussed this morning. The current...