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Debate on the Address: Foreign Affairs and Defence (10 Dec 2008) has video

Richard Benyon: ...strategic defence review know that it is impossible from the Opposition Benches to give accurate estimates of the expenditure that one wants to achieve in defence. It is not possible through freedom of information trawls or written questions, for example, to find out why there are more than 20,000 people employed in defence procurement and similar areas. I compliment the Government on the...

Bill Presented: Topical Debate — Zimbabwe (3 Jul 2008) has video

Richard Benyon: ...that we should let off companies such as Giesecke and Devrient as lightly as we have. We need to look at the other contracts that they have with the British Government, and I have submitted a freedom of information request. Those companies have to be held to account because, year after year, they have been actively conniving with the regime. There is a sense of real frustration among the...

[Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — Defence Exports (17 Oct 2007)

Richard Benyon: ...a festering sore for the Government. I have already drafted a raft of written questions, and I shall table them formally after our debate if the House does not receive the answers that it deserves. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 offers tempting avenues if approach fails. I hope that the Select Committee on Defence, on its return from an overseas trip, will set in train a detailed...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

Richard Benyon: ...that these cases raise have been addressed by the IND or Ministers. I have had to draw, like blood from a stone, information from Ministers to written questions and I am on the cusp of doing a freedom of information trawl for further information. The time has come for a new and more open approach. The police have the Independent Police Complaints Commission, an authority in which we can...