Protection of Freedoms Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 24 March 2011.

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Maurice Frankel: Five or six additional sets of functions would not necessarily improve my area of work—freedom of information. There is a danger. What we have seen with data protection over the past two years is that as Government Departments have been found to have lost a lot of data, the commissioner’s office has devoted more and more attention to those issues. That is perfectly fair, but, possibly, sometimes those resources come from freedom of information.