Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill. Report stage. Adjourned. Debate to be resumed 27 April.
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill
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Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
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Proceeding contributions
David Howarth | 459 c622 (Link to this contribution)
I do not want to cause trouble for my hon. Friend’s amendment. However, given that there is now a lo...
Norman Baker | 459 c622-3 (Link to this contribution)
It is important that we try to build on existing law when possible. We should try to ensure that wha...
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Norman Baker | 459 c622 (Link to this contribution)
I beg your pardon, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did not intend to read the entire amendment. I was merely p...
Speaker | 459 c621 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The question that the hon. Gentleman is posing follows the answers that the hon. Member for L...
David Winnick | 459 c621 (Link to this contribution)
Would we not have a particular problem in our constituencies and boroughs? If our correspondence is ...
Speaker | 459 c621 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Of course, I understood that, as the hon. Gentleman knows. However, I thought that we had alr...
David Winnick | 459 c621 (Link to this contribution)
If I may continue with my intervention, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I was trying to support what the hon. Me...
Speaker | 459 c621 (Link to this contribution)
Order. There is really no need for the hon. Gentleman to read out the amendment; everyone has it in ...
Norman Baker | 459 c621 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful both for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and for the intervention made by the hon. ...
Speaker | 459 c622 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman is defying the Chair if he is proceeding to read out something that I had ...
Norman Baker | 459 c621-2 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was merely trying to be helpful to the House as we address this...
Norman Baker | 459 c620-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to take any interventions.
If MPs’ correspondence alone is withheld—regardless of the c...
Norman Baker | 459 c619-20 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful, as always, for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I concede that there are hundreds o...
Speaker | 459 c620 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman cannot go on repeating examples. He is making the error that he made earli...
Simon Hughes | 459 c618 (Link to this contribution)
Sometimes there are difficulties. Someone wrote to me the other day saying, ““You have written to th...
Norman Baker | 459 c617-8 (Link to this contribution)
That is right. It would be easy for public bodies—such as Government Departments, NHS trusts or indi...
David Winnick | 459 c617 (Link to this contribution)
Should not the distinction be made between when we are writing on behalf of constituents, where it i...
Norman Baker | 459 c616-7 (Link to this contribution)
Well, no.
If I, or any other Member of Parliament, had behaved in that way, that would be reprehens...
Speaker | 459 c619 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I have listened carefully and attentively to the hon. Gentleman, but he is making the same po...
Norman Baker | 459 c619 (Link to this contribution)
I shall do my best. Those dilemmas are difficult and I do not envy anybody who finds themselves in s...
David Winnick | 459 c619 (Link to this contribution)
Keep me on board.
Lord Bellingham | 459 c591 (Link to this contribution)
I shall not.
There has been a lot of talk to the effect that the flame of progress that is spurring...
Lord Bellingham | 459 c591 (Link to this contribution)
I will not.
We strongly support the freedom of information legislation and we are appalled by Her M...
David Winnick | 459 c591 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Winnick | 459 c592 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister give way?
Bridget Prentice | 459 c591-2 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, shall be brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. The amendments have had a comprehensive airing this mo...
Lord Blencathra | 459 c592-3 (Link to this contribution)
The debate has been long and interesting. Of course, all hon. Members who spoke, including my hon. F...
Bridget Prentice | 459 c592 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to finish my comment. I cannot add to what the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk said...
Lord Blencathra | 459 c593 (Link to this contribution)
I take the view that the House of Commons should be capable of governing itself on a range of matter...
David Winnick | 459 c593 (Link to this contribution)
I said that I did not question the right hon. Gentleman’s intentions. I believe that they are wrong,...
David Howarth | 459 c593 (Link to this contribution)
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Simon Hughes | 459 c594-5 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (David Maclean) for speaking to hi...
Lord Blencathra | 459 c593-4 (Link to this contribution)
No. I am sorry, but I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. He walked in about half an hour ago, ...
Simon Hughes | 459 c596 (Link to this contribution)
I beg the hon. Gentleman’s pardon. I do not usually make that mistake.
I have made the point that t...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c596 (Link to this contribution)
Aldridge-Brownhills.
Simon Hughes | 459 c595-6 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is exactly right. I have the latest copy of the Register of Members’ Interests wi...
David Winnick | 459 c595 (Link to this contribution)
In reply to my earlier intervention, the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (David Maclean...
Simon Hughes | 459 c597-8 (Link to this contribution)
And—as was pointed out by the hon. Members for Walsall, North and for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Sheph...
David Howarth | 459 c596-7 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (David Maclean) said that the argument that volunta...
Simon Hughes | 459 c596 (Link to this contribution)
Let me then summarise the points in regard to the relative consequence of the amendments to the legi...
Speaker | 459 c596 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I must remind the hon. Gentleman that the concession of a wind-up speech is that it winds up ...
Simon Hughes | 459 c599 (Link to this contribution)
I have been surprised that there has been such a lack of clarity. I can understand the Government ta...
Simon Hughes | 459 c599-600 (Link to this contribution)
That is a question that we might have had an answer to, but we have not.
The support of the hon. Me...
Norman Baker | 459 c599 (Link to this contribution)
The proposition that has been put forward is that the House of Commons and House of Lords should be ...
David Winnick | 459 c598 (Link to this contribution)
My intervention, as always I hope, is political; it is in no way personal. I have listened to the Fr...
Simon Hughes | 459 c598-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am seeking to deal with the speeches that have been made. I can only speak for myself on the speci...
Speaker | 459 c598 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I hope that the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) will not be tem...
Simon Hughes | 459 c600-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for that intervention. I have tried to make sure that we do not have a debate in which...
Speaker | 459 c601 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman is going way beyond the scope of the amendment, on which, I remind him, he...
Norman Baker | 459 c605-6 (Link to this contribution)
I have not, and I hope that you will believe me, Mr. Deputy Speaker, when I say that I write lots of...
Simon Hughes | 459 c605 (Link to this contribution)
I want to know my hon. Friend’s view on a matter; I have a clear opinion myself, but I have not yet ...
Norman Baker | 459 c604-5 (Link to this contribution)
The amendments deal with Members of Parliament’s communications with constituents and public bodies....
Speaker | 459 c603-4 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 14, leave out lines 7 to 12...
Norman Baker | 459 c602 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment No. 2, page 1, line 5, leave out subsection (3).
Speaker | 459 c602 (Link to this contribution)
I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
The House having divided: Aye...
Simon Hughes | 459 c601 (Link to this contribution)
Of course, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I apologise if I went too far.
I shall end by referring to the speec...
Simon Hughes | 459 c606 (Link to this contribution)
I should be grateful if my hon. Friend amplified a point that he touched on. He said that his proble...
Norman Baker | 459 c606 (Link to this contribution)
I fear that that is a correct interpretation of events. The hon. Gentleman is quite right: if corres...
David Winnick | 459 c612 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, if there were many examples of the misuse of correspondence of M...
Simon Hughes | 459 c608 (Link to this contribution)
Amendments were moved by the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (David Maclean), whose Bil...
Norman Baker | 459 c608-9 (Link to this contribution)
As my hon. Friend says, the issue has been flagged up since the Committee stage. Those promoting the...
David Winnick | 459 c609-10 (Link to this contribution)
When we debated the 2000 Act, we found section 42 essential because so much of our correspondence co...
Norman Baker | 459 c610 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is right. To be fair to the Government, for those responsible for drafting parlia...
Simon Hughes | 459 c610 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) referred to section 42 of the 2000 Act. Part 2—from...
Norman Baker | 459 c610-1 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed. Some of us may believe that the 2000 Act contained too many exemptions. The Act that was pas...
Simon Hughes | 459 c611 (Link to this contribution)
I have just one last linked point before my hon. Friend moves on. Does he agree that it is important...
Norman Baker | 459 c611-2 (Link to this contribution)
Of course they must. It was suggested in Committee that one of the consequences might be that indivi...
Norman Baker | 459 c615 (Link to this contribution)
That is true, and it brings me to my next point, on correspondence between Members of Parliament and...
David Winnick | 459 c615 (Link to this contribution)
Would not it have been useful if the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (David Maclean) in...
Norman Baker | 459 c613-5 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly right.
I mentioned earlier that if information is leaked or inadvertently released,...
Simon Hughes | 459 c615 (Link to this contribution)
We all have massive experience of dealing with these matters. We know that if people complain to us ...
Norman Baker | 459 c616 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, or indeed in an e-mail that might be subject to investigation by the Metropolitan police under ...
Lord Bellingham | 459 c616 (Link to this contribution)
That is the Liberals all over.
Norman Baker | 459 c615-6 (Link to this contribution)
That is absolutely right. In referring to the right hon. Gentleman and his contributions, I keep hop...
Simon Hughes | 459 c616 (Link to this contribution)
These are important matters, as everyone who is here testifies, but there is huge merit in the prese...
Norman Baker | 459 c613 (Link to this contribution)
That is absolutely right. Members of Parliament also have extra protection, in the sense that we hav...
Simon Hughes | 459 c580 (Link to this contribution)
I am very keen that we do not neglect any of the arguments that were put in my hon. Friend’s tribuna...
Norman Baker | 459 c581 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly right. Will the Government consider supporting amendments Nos. 9 and 1? They have sa...
David Winnick | 459 c581-2 (Link to this contribution)
Just as the decision to go to the Information Tribunal was taken without consulting the House of Com...
Norman Baker | 459 c582 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for that intervention. For the avoidance of any doubt, I should say that I, for one, a...
Norman Baker | 459 c581 (Link to this contribution)
That point is succinctly put and an entirely accurate representation of what will be said. Indeed, i...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c581 (Link to this contribution)
It happens because of the authority or power of these Houses to respond almost instantaneously shoul...
Norman Baker | 459 c581 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly right. I am afraid that should amendments Nos. 9 and 1 not be accepted, the proposal...
Simon Hughes | 459 c581 (Link to this contribution)
We are not just talking about the public now. I do not know whether the hon. Members for Walsall, No...
Norman Baker | 459 c580 (Link to this contribution)
Exactly so. We in the House have an obligation to be seen to be leading the debate. I hope that we d...
David Winnick | 459 c580-1 (Link to this contribution)
If the Bill becomes law, will not the interpretation inevitably be that the House of Commons, having...
Simon Hughes | 459 c579 (Link to this contribution)
Just so that we are clear: my hon. Friend is completely right to say that the Scots go further. For ...
Norman Baker | 459 c579 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly right.
There are other benefits from the publication of details of the Members’ tra...
Simon Hughes | 459 c578 (Link to this contribution)
I notice that the person who appeared for the Information Commissioner, a man called Mr. Pitt-Payne,...
Norman Baker | 459 c578-9 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly right, and I am afraid that those who want to change the present arrangements are un...
Simon Hughes | 459 c577 (Link to this contribution)
There is another reason why the public need to understand the importance of our argument. A note pro...
Norman Baker | 459 c577-8 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly right. The situation shows the endemic nature of secrecy in the House of Commons Com...
Simon Hughes | 459 c576 (Link to this contribution)
Let me deal with the intervention made by the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick). I have h...
Norman Baker | 459 c576 (Link to this contribution)
I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, although I do not want to go into the make-up of the House of C...
David Winnick | 459 c590 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that if the Bill were passed into law without the amendment, it would ...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c590 (Link to this contribution)
My instinct is that it would do the House of Commons no good and add to a general feeling, which I p...
Lord Bellingham | 459 c590 (Link to this contribution)
We have had an interesting and well informed debate on the amendments, and several colleagues have s...
David Howarth | 459 c590 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Bellingham | 459 c590-1 (Link to this contribution)
No. I want to draw my remarks to a conclusion quite quickly because many Members have spoken and man...
David Winnick | 459 c591 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Simon Hughes | 459 c587 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman may not remember, but in the schedule of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 that...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c587-8 (Link to this contribution)
I am always obliged to have a point that I am making reinforced, even at length. What the hon. Gentl...
David Evennett | 459 c588 (Link to this contribution)
Not much of a meal.
Richard Shepherd | 459 c589 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad to hear that my hon. Friend thinks that it is not much of a meal. I am pleased that in tho...
Speaker | 459 c585 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I think that at the appropriate time the Minister will make the points that she wishes to mak...
Norman Baker | 459 c585-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that the hon. Lady will make the points that she wishes to make. I was encouraging her to ...
Simon Hughes | 459 c585 (Link to this contribution)
I do not know whether my hon. Friend was going on to the point that it appears that the proposal is ...
Norman Baker | 459 c585 (Link to this contribution)
It is indeed. I hope that, as a consequence of our debate, the Under-Secretary of State for Constitu...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c586-7 (Link to this contribution)
I always treat with diffidence the advice of my friend from Cambridge, who has a legal background. I...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c586 (Link to this contribution)
I rise somewhat reluctantly at this juncture as a supporter of amendments Nos. 9 and 1, which stand ...
David Howarth | 459 c586 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman’s remarks prompt the question: if the House of Commons and the House of Lords are...
Speaker | 459 c584 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman and one or two other hon. Members have made that point very well. Perhaps ...
Norman Baker | 459 c585 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to do that, Madam Deputy Speaker. I merely make the point that openness leads to good gov...
Norman Baker | 459 c582-4 (Link to this contribution)
May I refer to tribunal judgment again and move on to a different point, Madam Deputy Speaker? This ...
Simon Hughes | 459 c553 (Link to this contribution)
I shall make one more point before giving way to the hon. Gentleman.
One thing is seriously troubli...
Speaker | 459 c553 (Link to this contribution)
We are debating the group of amendments that I have already mentioned; that is the scope of the deba...
David Winnick | 459 c553 (Link to this contribution)
There is a wish on the part of the usual channels to make the Bill pass into law. My Government brou...
Simon Hughes | 459 c551-2 (Link to this contribution)
I wish to speak to amendment No. 9, which stands in my name and in those of the hon. Members for Ald...
Speaker | 459 c551 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 1, in page 1, line 3, leave...
Simon Hughes | 459 c552-3 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes a strong point very early on, and I am grateful for that expression of a cl...
David Winnick | 459 c552 (Link to this contribution)
What would the hon. Gentleman say to those who say that the House of Commons decides on freedom of i...
Simon Hughes | 459 c551 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment No. 9, in page 1, line 3, leave out subsection (2) and insert—"‘2 In Part 1 ...
David Winnick | 459 c557 (Link to this contribution)
I do not in any way question the good faith of Members, let alone officials, who took the case to th...
Simon Hughes | 459 c557 (Link to this contribution)
I agree. In some ways, it would be worse. My hon. Friend, with The Sunday Times, applied to ensure t...
Norman Baker | 459 c557 (Link to this contribution)
There is a further point to make. The Information Commissioner has ruled, after careful consideratio...
Norman Baker | 459 c554 (Link to this contribution)
It is worth putting on the record that the House of Commons Commission resisted tooth and nail the c...
Simon Hughes | 459 c554 (Link to this contribution)
The difference is that if the legislation stated that allowances should be published, they would hav...
Andrew Dismore | 459 c554 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has moved on a little from the point that I want to make. Mr. Speaker has made it...
Simon Hughes | 459 c554 (Link to this contribution)
Of course, Madam Deputy Speaker. The first of the group is amendment No. 9, to which I shall turn in...
Speaker | 459 c554 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that, at this moment, we are discussing the group of amendment to...
Speaker | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
I hope that the hon. Gentleman’s reference to that will be very brief, so that he can return to the ...
Norman Baker | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
I will be brief, Madam Deputy Speaker, although with respect it is an important point in my argument...
Lord Bellingham | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman’s colleague, the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey), was a member of that ...
Norman Baker | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed I do. I very much hope that the hon. Gentleman has read the Committee report, as I have. If h...
Speaker | 459 c569 (Link to this contribution)
Order. That topic cannot be part of the debate.
Norman Baker | 459 c569-70 (Link to this contribution)
I hear what you say, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I sincerely hope that those who wish to curtail the r...
Speaker | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman has made reference to this subject, but I now wish him to address his rema...
Norman Baker | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to do so, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I was trying to do so; I apologise if I have failed i...
David Winnick | 459 c569 (Link to this contribution)
In all my experience I have never known of a situation in which a Member introducing a private Membe...
Norman Baker | 459 c568-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry that we have to discuss this Bill. Regardless of the motives of the right hon. Member for...
David Winnick | 459 c575-6 (Link to this contribution)
Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that it appears that the three main parties, including his, were i...
Speaker | 459 c575 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would relate the points that he has made fairly clearly i...
Norman Baker | 459 c575 (Link to this contribution)
I regard myself as deeply chastened, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I had hoped that I was doing that...
Speaker | 459 c572 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I do not think that what is happening in the Scottish Parliament is relevant to this debate.
Norman Baker | 459 c572-5 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, although to be fair to my colleague it will become relevant if the ...
Norman Baker | 459 c572 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely pertinent and valid point. The Bill has the potential to unrav...
Simon Hughes | 459 c572 (Link to this contribution)
Has my hon. Friend seen the article in The Scotsman of 8 March, headed ““Welcome to secret Scotland?...
David Winnick | 459 c572 (Link to this contribution)
If the amendments were not passed and the measure became law, what would be the position if the devo...
Norman Baker | 459 c570-2 (Link to this contribution)
I hope you accept that I was responding to an intervention, Madam Deputy Speaker.
I am in some diff...
Speaker | 459 c570 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I advise Members that it is not the previous proceedings of the Bill that are relevant now bu...
Simon Hughes | 459 c558 (Link to this contribution)
I stand to be corrected by any hon. Member present, but I think that the hon. Gentleman is right to ...
Speaker | 459 c558 (Link to this contribution)
I must remind the hon. Gentleman yet again that he should be speaking to his amendment.
Simon Hughes | 459 c558-9 (Link to this contribution)
I was responding to the point put to me by the hon. Gentleman.
Amendment No. 1 is a more whole-bloo...
Richard Shepherd | 459 c559 (Link to this contribution)
One should not forget that this matter was subject to pre-legislative scrutiny by both Houses, so th...
Simon Hughes | 459 c559 (Link to this contribution)
It was indeed. Let me remind the House how the position that we are now in came about. It was not ac...
Simon Hughes | 459 c559-61 (Link to this contribution)
I am detailing the membership because some of the hon. Members in their places today signed up to a ...
Speaker | 459 c561 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman is straying into the second group of amendments. The second group deals wi...
Simon Hughes | 459 c561 (Link to this contribution)
I will of course follow your direction, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I am aware that the second group h...
Lord Bellingham | 459 c562 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has confused me.
Norman Baker | 459 c565 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend said that no public concern had been raised about the present arrangements. I would s...
Simon Hughes | 459 c565 (Link to this contribution)
I was not arguing that there was no concern in the opposite direction. I have spent much of the last...
Norman Baker | 459 c562-3 (Link to this contribution)
The tribunal, which considered the matter in some detail, conducted an analysis of the interaction b...
Simon Hughes | 459 c563-4 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend has dealt with the general point, but let me give another specific example. Obviously...
David Winnick | 459 c567 (Link to this contribution)
I can imagine the reaction in the House of Commons if the European Parliament did anything of the ki...
Simon Hughes | 459 c567 (Link to this contribution)
And local authorities.
David Winnick | 459 c565-7 (Link to this contribution)
I fully support the amendments that have been tabled by the hon. Member for North Southwark and Berm...
Simon Hughes | 459 c567 (Link to this contribution)
I am prompted by what the hon. Gentleman said to ask him what we would say if the European Parliamen...
Simon Hughes | 459 c562 (Link to this contribution)
I beg the hon. Gentleman’s pardon.
Amendment No. 4 is consequential to amendment No. 3, and amendme...
Norman Baker | 459 c618-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that we can. As and when such situations arise, we can all deal with them sensibly.
Let u...
Norman Baker | 459 c599 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to have the opportunity to make a point at this stage. Does my hon. Friend agree that ...
David Winnick | 459 c600 (Link to this contribution)
If the Bill unfortunately becomes law, that will make all the more necessary the amendments that the...
David Winnick | 459 c606 (Link to this contribution)
If public bodies released information about Members’ correspondence and there was widespread disclos...
Norman Baker | 459 c576-7 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, which has helpfully clarified matters.
The tr...
Simon Hughes | 459 c553-4 (Link to this contribution)
Obviously, I accept that, Madam Deputy Speaker.
I wanted to report what the Minister said accuratel...
Speaker | 459 c559 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I can allow a brief reference to the Select Committee, but I do not think that we need to kno...
Norman Baker | 459 c606-8 (Link to this contribution)
Occasionally, public authorities err on the side of caution, but that occurs less often. The sadness...
Simon Hughes | 459 c554-7 (Link to this contribution)
Amendment No. 9, the first of the group, addresses the first clause of the Bill, which would amend t...
David Winnick | 459 c567 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed. All the information concerning those elected bodies would be in the public domain. What abou...
Simon Hughes | 459 c613 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) is correct. Furthermore, part of the solution is in...
Simon Hughes | 459 c582 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Member for Walsall, North rightly talked about his own party. I raised this matter with my ...
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