Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Tony Wright (Labour), on Tuesday, 10 October 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 140 members in total.

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

That this House welcomes the finding of the Constitutional Affairs Committee (HC991) that the Freedom of Information Act has `already brought about the release of significant new information and....this information is being used in a constructive and positive way' and the committee's conclusion that it sees `no need to change' the Act's charging arrangements; views with concern reports that the Government is considering changing these arrangements to permit an application fee to be charged for all requests or to allow authorities to refuse, on cost grounds, a significant proportion of requests which they currently must answer; and considers that such changes could undermine the Act's benefits of increased openness, accountability and trust in the work of public authorities.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2699 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Richard Shepherd

Simon Hughes

Mark Fisher

Dominic Grieve

Lord Beith

Subjects

Freedom of information

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk