Results 1-4 of 4 for "freedom of information" speaker:Paul Holmes

Bill Presented: Police Grant Report (4 Feb 2009) has video

Paul Holmes: ...level crimes such as burglary, shoplifting, robbery and shed breaking. All those things cause increased demands on the police. The most recent quarterly crime statistics, and figures released following a freedom of information request by The Independent, show increasing crime—a widely predicted result of the recession. On 17 January, The Independent gave the example of forces such...

Higher Education (5 Nov 2008)

Paul Holmes: ...;which, ironically, was the party that had, in government, introduced the measure—we were told that the Government seemed to have forgotten all the research that they had been hiding, which had been drawn out only by freedom of information requests. That research showed that there had been problems and that children and students from poorer backgrounds now go much more often into...

Local Government (Norfolk) (20 Nov 2007)

Paul Holmes: ...often in various government reorganisation schemes. The point was made several times that the time scale had been rushed. My hon. Friend made another telling point. He had found out by means of a freedom of information request that two of the authorities involved had already spent more than £500,000 on initial preparations alone. If we add in the cost of all the other authorities'...

Written Answers — Education and Skills: City Academies (19 Dec 2006)

Paul Holmes: ...of State for Education and Skills why the legislative provisions relating to (a) the composition and operation of the governing body under Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Education Act 2002, (b) Freedom of Information and the general provision of information to parents and (c) human rights applying to maintained schools do not apply in the same way to city academies.