Results 1-14 of 14 for "freedom of information" speaker:Chris Bryant

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Freedom of Information (11 Nov 2009)

Chris Bryant: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has ten staff in its Information Rights Team who are responsible for managing Freedom of Information (FOI) and subject access requests under the FOI and Data Protection Acts respectively. However, a large number of staff in the FCO play a role in answering FOI requests and to find out exactly how many would incur disproportionate cost. A report...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Freedom of Information (16 Jul 2009)

Chris Bryant: Freedom of Information requests received at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are recorded and logged on a database by the date received and by the name of the requestor. Information about the company or organisation the requestor may represent is not recorded. Requests from foreign embassies, high commissions or governments cannot therefore be identified without incurring disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Freedom of Information: Trident (14 Jul 2009)

Chris Bryant: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has received no requests in the last 12 months under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 related to the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system and its launch platform.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Databases (7 Jul 2009)

Chris Bryant: ...databases became operational could be done only at disproportionate cost. All personal information held on FCO databases is strictly protected in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Databases (6 Jul 2009)

Chris Bryant: ...our staff and members of the public who have sought our assistance, but all personal information held on FCO databases is strictly protected in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Members' Home Addresses (28 Apr 2009) has video

Chris Bryant: ...is permissive, and if people want to put their address on they can do so. There were 235 votes in favour of changing the law and only 176 against. We also introduced a statutory instrument under the freedom of information legislation to ensure that Members' residential addresses could be kept secure for the obvious reasons that the hon. Gentleman has elucidated. I think we can all agree...

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Parliamentary Standards (Constitutional Reform) (2 Feb 2009) has video

Chris Bryant: ...to remove the majority of the hereditary peers. It is only by virtue of our work that the Law Lords have been reformed. We are proud to be a Government who have brought forward devolution and freedom of information. My hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) demanded that I agree with every single thing that he said, but I am afraid that I am unable to do that. He said that...

Ministerial Answers to Parliamentary Questions (22 Jan 2009) has video

Chris Bryant: ...with Parliament and the public, refusing to provide information only when disclosure would not be in the public interest which should be decided in accordance with the relevant statutes and the Freedom of Information Act 2000". That is precisely the sort of issue that the hon. Gentleman mentioned at the end of his speech, and I think we wholeheartedly agree thus far. In addition, the House...

Ministerial Answers to Parliamentary Questions (22 Jan 2009) has video

Chris Bryant: It is first class, as the hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well. The hon. Gentleman asked whether freedom of information inquiries and ministerial answers are connected. I am gazing wistfully towards my private office staff for the answer to that, and am afraid that I shall have to write to him with the answer, although I note that the ministerial code refers specifically to the Freedom of...

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Chris Bryant: ...we will be able to turn around within a month the business of when this is given to hon. Members and they can confirm it. I know that some hon. Members have had to go through a similar process for freedom of information requests, quite separately, and it has taken three months for the process to be agreed because of internal disputes.

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Chris Bryant: ...put and agreed to. Resolved, (1) That, subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) below, for the purpose of the publication scheme adopted and maintained by the House under section 19 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, such information about payments made to, or on behalf of, hon. Members which is already published routinely in accordance with the scheme shall continue to be...

Written Answers — Leader of the House: Members' Expenses (22 Jan 2009)

Chris Bryant: ...private communications with Members from all parts of the House on a range of issues relating to her ministerial responsibilities. No external bodies were consulted about the tabling of the draft Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009.

Constituency Correspondence (Confidentiality) (5 Nov 2008) has video

Chris Bryant: ...they should have the protection of the law; however, where they are pursuing a decent, honourable and common-sense approach, clearly they should have protection. The hon. Gentleman referred to the freedom of information issue, and he is right that there is such an issue. He will recall that the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (David Maclean) promoted a private Member's...

Constituency Correspondence (Confidentiality) (5 Nov 2008) has video

Chris Bryant: ...known so that they get more abuse from the person about whom they have complained. I am confident that the guidance that the Secretary of State for Justice has provided means that, in the event of a freedom of information request in such a case, the local authority would ring or write to the Member of Parliament. In that situation, the Member would immediately say that the authority should...