UK Parliament / Open data

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill

No, the hon. Lady has been harping on a little too much this morning. I may give way to her in a moment. We could, theoretically, go back to dragging people before the Bar of the House and sending them to the Tower of London for contempt. We do not do such things anymore. The openness about the publication of expenses will continue. I trust the word of Mr. Speaker on that and Parliament will not renege on it. We can therefore tie down the bogus argument that if my Bill is enacted we will somehow go back to the dark ages and nothing will ever be published again. We will not go back to the dark ages and we will continue to publish that information as we have done every October for the past few years. In fact, I anticipate that this October we will publish more, when we publish the details—[Interruption.] I mean in October next year, when we publish the details of the new communications allowance.

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Reference

460 c916 

Session

2006-07

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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