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

Tim Farron: ...children and so on, that information should be protected. It should quite clearly be protected under the current Act. However, inadvertently, someone may release it." ——[Official Report, Freedom of Information (Amendment) Public Bill Committee, 7 February 2007; c. 8.] In other words, it is not new legislation that is needed but proper interpretation of the current Act.

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

Tim Farron: The Minister says that 110,000 public bodies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Does she not think it peculiar that here we are in the House of Commons considering the exclusion of just one of them—this one? Does she not believe that that is an utterly self-regarding proposal, which brings MPs and Parliament into disrepute?

Freedom of Information (Fees Regulation) (7 Feb 2007)

Tim Farron: ...of mine, ostensibly resigned because the Act was not made of the stuff that he wished it was. It is all the more depressing, therefore, that we are having this debate about potentially narrowing the Freedom of Information Act, rather than expanding it or widening its scope. Liberal Democrat Members would certainly like to see it expanded and the limitations on access to information...

Freedom of Information (Fees Regulation) (7 Feb 2007)

Tim Farron: ...through some examples of how the Act has worked and been of great value in my constituency. We have a good, campaigning local newspaper, the Westmorland Gazette, which is pretty famous. It made a freedom of information request to the local police authority about the impact of new speed cameras. Whatever one's view about the impact and usefulness of speed cameras, it was only by using the...