Results 1-8 of 8 for "freedom of information" speaker:Martin Horwood

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords] (1 Jun 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: Pompous inspectors, then. I made a freedom of information request to discover exactly how much time those officials had spent in one of the communities into which an urban extension that had not been in the regional spatial strategy before was added. I discovered that on the trip to examine the various areas, the inspectors in the examination-in-public process went from Bristol to Thornbury,...

Business of the House: Members' Payments and Allowances (22 Jan 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: If the new regime that the Leader of the House is describing is to be as open as we want it to be, presumably there will be no reason to exempts MPs in future from freedom of information legislation. I think she has been asked twice about that, without giving a clear answer. Will she simply say that no future attempt will be made to exempt Members of Parliament from freedom of information...

Public Bill Committee: Charities Bill [Lords]: Schedule 8 (13 Jul 2006)

Martin Horwood: The evidence obtained by the Association for Charities under the freedom of information legislation suggests that that is exactly what is happening in the majority of cases—the existing trustees are excluded.

Public Bill Committee: Charities Bill [Lords]: Schedule 8 (13 Jul 2006)

Martin Horwood: ...one. Only a small proportion of receivers and managers who have been appointed have had the kind of narrow remit to which the term “interim manager” might be appropriate. Using the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Association for Charities has obtained details of 51 receiver and manager appointments between 1993 and the end of June 2005. The vast majority of those...

Medical Research (Regulation) (9 Nov 2005)

Martin Horwood: ...to the ethics committees already responsible for regulating clinical trials. We are in a new landscape in terms of awareness of issues such as children's welfare, patient safety and personal freedom of information. Those issues may have implications for the wording of legislation and the composition of the authority itself. Public opinion is, in broad terms, generally on our side; a...

e-Government (13 Oct 2005)

Martin Horwood: ...Alzheimer's Society were at various times my employers, not my clients, and that I meant conservative with a small "c". That underlines the importance of being able to correct personal data through freedom of information, for which Liberal Democrats also campaigned for a long time. I was not expecting that the Government would make personal data available to commercial organisations,...

e-Government (13 Oct 2005)

Martin Horwood: ...hands could trigger not the offer of a sale but an extra level of surveillance, for instance. It is no wonder that data protection and privacy legislation and action are so essential and that freedom of information rights need to be so jealously guarded. Otherwise, we would have a dramatic shift in the balance of power between the state and the individual. Therefore, the Government should...

e-Government (13 Oct 2005)

Martin Horwood: .... We should at least be on our guard. As I said at the beginning, I did not argue against ever holding such data at Government level. It should be ensured, however, that rules on data protection, freedom of information and access to people's records are in place. If there is no need for a national identity register database such as has been proposed, I would warn against it. It is right to...