Results 1-9 of 9 for "freedom of information" speaker:Norman Lamb

Sri Lanka: Swine Flu (14 May 2009) has video

Norman Lamb: ...same high standards should apply to all airlines, so that all staff are protected. Critically, the Treasury appears to have delayed the implementation of the flu line for some seven months. Under freedom of information legislation, I am seeking further documentation about why the implementation has taken so long. From newspaper reports and board minutes, we know that the NHS Direct board...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: NHS (60th Anniversary) (24 Jun 2008) has video

Norman Lamb: ...have at the moment, and that should be addressed. In some areas of health care, particularly those which are not subject to targets, access is still poor. I want to focus on mental health. Under the Freedom of Information Act, we did a survey asking mental health trusts across the country how long people have to wait for access to cognitive behavioural therapy. In some parts of the...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Freedom of Information (8 May 2008)

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department monitors freedom of information (a) requests to and (b) responses from individual NHS trusts; and whether trusts are required to report to his Department freedom of information requests which they receive.

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] — Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (29 Apr 2008)

Norman Lamb: ...committed to enforcing the sanctions regime, but I have already described how weak it is because it is so easy to avoid through locally registered companies. I wrote again on 12 March, making a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I asked for documents relating to the Foreign Office's investigation of Barclays bank and whether there had been breaches. I am still waiting. I...

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] — Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (29 Apr 2008)

Norman Lamb: ...the additional chance that I gave it last week to respond before today, it has continued to fail. I hope that I will get a substantive reply, but I know this Government's attitude towards the freedom of information legislation that they themselves introduced. It tends to take several years to get any proper, substantive response to requests to central Government. The Government presumably...

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Manpower: Prime Minister (17 Dec 2007)

Norman Lamb: ...the Duchy of Lancaster when a response will be sent to the letter of 19 September from the hon. Member for North Norfolk on Downing Street staff and requesting an internal review of a response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Local Government (Norfolk) (20 Nov 2007)

Norman Lamb: ...but to put forward proposals that they may not be convinced about and that will inevitably be rushed through. The time scale is utterly ludicrous. On cost, over the summer I made requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to Norfolk county council and Norwich city council. The two authorities have together spent £600,000 on the initial process at a time when services for...

Written Answers — Defence: Defence Export Services Organisation: Freedom of Information (15 Mar 2007)

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2007, Official Report, column 960W, on the Defence Export Services Organisation: freedom of information, what the (a) brief fees and (b) refresher rates are for (i) Jonathan Crow QC and (ii) Kate Gallafent.

Written Answers — Defence: Defence Export Services Organisation: Freedom of Information (23 Feb 2007)

Norman Lamb: ...on appealing a decision by the Information Commissioner (decision notice FS50073980) to release a copy of the March 2004 edition of the Defence Export Services Organisation staff directory under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; which outside counsel were hired to mount the appeal; and what fees have been paid to such counsel in this case; (2) which companies were given access to the...