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Proceeding contribution from Julian Lewis (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 17 July 2008. It occurred during Legislative debate on Freedom of Information.
I think that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) has put his finger on a key issue, which I hope to address if I am fortunate enough to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. However, I should like to press one point in any case. Just because once every four or five years we have to disclose one of our addresses on certain documents to do with elections does not mean that we should disclose them all, en masse, in an easily accessible way. When I enter one of my addresses—the one that I have sometimes disclosed at election times—and my name on to the Google search engine, not a single match comes up, but if we did not do what we are doing now everyone's addresses would be freely available at home and abroad.

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Reference

479 c448-9 

Session

2007-08

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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