Results 1-8 of 8 for "freedom of information" speaker:John Pugh

Building Colleges for the Future (25 Mar 2009)

John Pugh: ...evolve. They clocked the agreements in principle, they watched the progress through the various stages of the various schemes, they saw what sums were being committed—that is apparent from the freedom of information requests made by Conservative Front-Bench Members—they knew all along what was in the kitty, they knew what was promised, and, presumably, they had some numeracy...

Public Bill Committee: Banking Bill: Clause 50 (11 Nov 2008)

John Pugh: ...147;Records of an independent valuer are public records for the purpose of the Public Records Act 1958.” I am not sufficiently learned in the law to know whether that makes an exemption from a freedom of information request. I could imagine that if in certain circumstances a valuer was deemed to withhold crucial and important information, more than one interested party would wish to...

NHS and the Private Sector (7 Mar 2007)

John Pugh: ...been a couple of debates in this place on the deficiencies of out-of-hours services. Many people who have looked into the situation to get details about what is actually happening have had to use freedom of information legislation to prise from private contractors information that they would normally have had from the local NHS. I believe that the Minister would acknowledge that using the...

Public Bill Committee: Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill: Clause 155 (6 Mar 2007)

John Pugh: ...-hours service, which was presumably commissioned by the Cornwall PCT. When critics tried to find out problems about its performance, they found it extraordinarily difficult and had to resort to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to get any valid information to assist them. The public were fairly confident that things were going wrong, but getting any real response from the provider...

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Health Care (Cornwall) (20 Feb 2007)

John Pugh: ...delivery of service. When it comes to the facts, we are up against similar phenomena, including issues of confidentiality and commercial secrecy. The Cornwall data was wheedled out only under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and because of action taken by a local newspaper, the Western Morning News. In my neck of the woods, an IT specialist who worked for UC24 had resigned; wanting to...

Local and Regional Government (23 Nov 2005)

John Pugh: ...strategic plan that identifies which projects it will and will not fund, but I invite Members just to try to get it off them—they will find it fairly difficult. They would also find that not even the Freedom of Information Act 2000 will prise the plan from the agency. I think that there is an appalling democratic deficit, and most people would say that that was the case in the...

Public Bill Committee: Civil Aviation Bill: New Clause 2 - Retention of data by national air traffic services (7 Jul 2005)

John Pugh: ...not been able to find where it resided, even though it was obviously somewhere in the system. Where there are thought to be breaches of, for example, air traffic orders there is an obligation under freedom of information legislation to place the information fairly promptly in the public domain. Therefore, I am sympathetic to the general thrust of subsection (1). However, I wonder whether...

Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords] (14 Mar 2005)

Mr John Pugh: ...Chris Woodhead overruled a unanimous decision by a series of inspectors that the north London comprehensive had passed its inspection, and declared it to be failing. It has taken eight years and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to disclose what the staff and pupils knew all along: that the school was improving. A team of Her Majesty's inspectors sent to the school on behalf of Mr....