Results 1-9 of 9 for "freedom of information" speaker:Theresa Villiers

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: ...in no position to make assertions or claims about, or to ask questions about, the basis for noise calculations. His credibility on noise is completely undermined by the documents revealed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by the assiduous work of my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening), which show his officials deliberately reverse-engineering and re-forecasting...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Theresa Villiers: Not just at the moment. Even more controversially, as I have said, the documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the DFT and BAA working closely together on a re-forecasting, and reverse-engineering the projections for future flight mix to try to meet the tests that the Government had set and get the answers that Ministers wanted. Even then, the Government are still relying...

Bill Presented: Heathrow (11 Nov 2008)

Theresa Villiers: ...at Heathrow, without breaching the terms of the directive. The Government's assumptions are hopelessly optimistic, and their credibility is further undermined by the documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening)—I shall come to that later. Greenpeace has used the Act to reveal another worrying...

Bill Presented: Heathrow (11 Nov 2008)

Theresa Villiers: ...years but, again, Labour has relied on a massive leap forward in aircraft technology to enable it to reconcile its promises on noise with the increase in flight movements that it wants at Heathrow. The freedom of information documents indicate that when the fleet mix data provided to support the air transport White Paper was fed into the Civil Aviation Authority's noise model, they failed...

Bill Presented: Heathrow (11 Nov 2008)

Theresa Villiers: ...'s assumptions. I do not believe that the Government's predicted time frame for delivering those advances is realistic. As a result of the revelations in the documents that were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, it is necessary for us to consider the Government's heavy reliance on BAA's data and modelling. It is a cause for major concern. Leaving aside BAA's obvious commercial...

Bill Presented: Heathrow (11 Nov 2008) has video

Theresa Villiers: ...have a huge positive impact economically and environmentally. It is Labour Members who are taking short-term decisions based on data that are flawed and that have been wholly undermined by the "freedom of information" documents that I have discussed. If runway capacity determined whether a financial sector captured market share, why is London streets ahead of Frankfurt? Why are there more...

Written Answers — Transport: Highways Agency: Freedom of Information (12 Jun 2008)

Theresa Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been received by the Highways Agency since the Act came into operation.

Deferred Division: Heathrow (2 Apr 2008) has video

Theresa Villiers: ...questions, and that is my point. The Government have failed to produce objective and reliable data and the documents obtained by my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening) under the Freedom of Information Act demonstrate the Government's efforts to fix the figures to suit the case that they want to make. They show close involvement by BAA in the data and modelling used by the...

Written Answers — Transport: Ministerial Duties (30 Oct 2007)

Theresa Villiers: ...for Transport which Minister has responsibility for (a) the Government Car and Dispatch Agency, (b) Passenger Focus, (c) legislative priorities, (d) relations with devolved administrations, (e) freedom of information, (f) deregulation and (g) finance in her Department; and for what reasons these roles were not set out in the Cabinet Office List of Ministerial Responsibilities,...