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Public Bill Committee: Pensions Bill: Clause 18 (1 Feb 2007): James Purnell: ...that it does. There may well be occasions when it wants to give advice in confidence. I am sure that he can imagine circumstances in which it would want to do that. That is why we think that freedom of information should apply to this body in the same way that it applies to other Government bodies.
Public Bill Committee: Pensions Bill: Clause 18 (1 Feb 2007): James Purnell: ..., as I am surely not allowed to do so. I am tempted to agree with the spirit behind all these amendments, and leave it at that. We do, however, have a disagreement of substance on the one about freedom of information, so I shall come to that. Yet people would feel short-changed if we did not set out, on the record, a little response to the desire for our thinking to be teased out. So, I...
Public Bill Committee: Pensions Bill: Clause 18 (1 Feb 2007): James Purnell: ...right. In the authority’s next incarnation, when not giving advice but actually making proposals, then it would obviously be subject to normal judicial review and other legal proceedings. On freedom of information, I am just not sure that I agree with the hon. Gentleman. I can see the desire for transparency. However, in the same way as civil servants give advice to Ministers, which...

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