Results 1-5 of 5 for "freedom of information" speaker:David Howarth

Nato: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (20 Oct 2009)

David Howarth: ..., and that is simply impossible. We are not gods; we are only people. In both forms of celebrity, we have developed a form of airbrushing. Photographs of celebrities are airbrushed, and before freedom of information we airbrushed what we were doing here. Exposure of that has, I believe, been fundamentally damaging. The alternative approach is to reject the whole idea rather than going...

Public Bill Committee: : Clause 151 (26 Feb 2009)

David Howarth: ...notice? The commissioner does not intend heavy-handed interference with organisations under the provisions. Therefore, the best approach to inserting a sanction for non-compliance would be to go down the freedom of information route and that proposed by the Government with regard to the powers of the Electoral Commission under the Political Parties and Elections Bill. If an assessment...

Public Bill Committee: Political Parties and Elections Bill: Schedule 2 (13 Nov 2008)

David Howarth: ...way. What publicity, in the normal course of events, will a fixed penalty notice case have? Will the information about the identity of the person required to make a payment be discoverable under freedom of information legislation? Will it be published in the normal course of events or be treated as essentially a private matter between the parties?

Orders of the Day: Clause 1 — Exemption of House of Commons and House of Lords (18 May 2007)

David Howarth: Is not the ultimate conclusion from what my hon. Friend has said that what the Bill protects, in terms of correspondence exempted from freedom of information provisions, is precisely and only those communications between MPs and public authorities that are on matters of public policy? And are not those precisely what freedom of information should apply to, on the grounds that our constituents...

Companies Bill [ Lords] (Programme) (No. 4): Clause 857 — Appointment of the independent supervisor (6 Nov 2006)

David Howarth: I, too, welcome the concession. I am glad that, in the first discussion of the freedom of information legislation under the Companies Bill, we have come out in favour of widening that legislation, rather than narrowing it—I fear that that might not be the case when the Department for Constitutional Affairs has its way on the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am especially glad that the...