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Freedom of Information Act 2000

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

488 c153-68 

Session

2008-09

Department

Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Certificate of the Secretary of State for Justice, made in accordance with Section 53 (2) of the Freedom of information Act 2000.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Unprinted papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Jack Straw | 488 c159 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend in both respects. The Freedom of Information Act is a package deal. The ...

Stuart Bell | 488 c159 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State confirm that the Freedom of Information Act is not to be used like Wikipe...

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David Howarth | 488 c159-60 (Link to this contribution) I also thank the Secretary of State for an advance copy of his statement. I am fascinated that the c...

Jack Straw | 488 c153-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the use of the ministerial veto u...

Jack Straw | 488 c158-9 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. and learned Gentleman blustered, I assumed that at some stage he would get to the point ...

Dominic Grieve | 488 c156-8 (Link to this contribution) I first thank the Secretary of State for giving me prior sight of his statement. The Secretary of S...

Jack Straw | 488 c163 (Link to this contribution) The Attorney-General has explained how he came to that decision. His advice and his further explanat...

Peter Tapsell | 488 c163 (Link to this contribution) I was one who opposed the invasion of Iraq and I put it to the right hon. Gentleman, who was Foreign...

Jack Straw | 488 c162-3 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend disagrees—and he disagreed at the time—with the decision, but it was made...

Speaker | 488 c162 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have to consider other Back Benchers and if questions are too long, it is unfair to others....

Alan Simpson | 488 c162 (Link to this contribution) Surely the tribunal was right to recognise that there is no more momentous a decision made by a Parl...

Jack Straw | 488 c162 (Link to this contribution) The tribunal was far less ““strong””—to use the right hon. Gentleman's adjective—than he implied, as...

Lord Beith | 488 c162 (Link to this contribution) Given the strength of the tribunal's argument that this is a unique case setting no precedents, is i...

Jack Straw | 488 c161-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend took a very close interest in the debates on the Freedom of Information Bill as it wa...

Tony Wright | 488 c161 (Link to this contribution) May I say to my right hon. Friend that it must be a source of considerable regret that the veto has ...

Jack Straw | 488 c160-1 (Link to this contribution) Well, certainly not the latter. There have been plenty of occasions to discuss the nature of the dec...

Speaker | 488 c168 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on.

Jack Straw | 488 c168 (Link to this contribution) I have already explained why, in the unusual circumstances of this case, I have decided that a secti...

Ben Wallace | 488 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) Is it not ironic that a Government who have for so long made a virtue of taking Cabinet decisions aw...

Jack Straw | 488 c164 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he has said. He has the benefit of being correct a...

Andrew Mackinlay | 488 c164 (Link to this contribution) Has the Justice Secretary looked behind him to see that there are only two office holders—a Parliame...

Jack Straw | 488 c163 (Link to this contribution) Were there to be an inquiry—I have already referred to the comments made in the House by my right ho...

John Greenway | 488 c163-4 (Link to this contribution) The Justice Secretary will recall that I had the extreme pleasure of dealing with the Bill on behalf...

Jack Straw | 488 c164 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern, but on the issue of whether it was correct for me to be the p...

Edward Leigh | 488 c165 (Link to this contribution) Is not the Secretary of State tilting at false windmills? He knows perfectly well that no sensible p...

Jack Straw | 488 c165 (Link to this contribution) That is the hon. Gentleman's opinion, and it was also—although slightly more carefully put—the opini...

Gordon Prentice | 488 c163 (Link to this contribution) We need these minutes because Butler told us that the Cabinet was, in effect, dysfunctional. It did ...

Paul Keetch | 488 c165-6 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has effectively said today that he is using his exceptional section 53 power ...

Jack Straw | 488 c166 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. I am not going to give legal advice across the Chamb...

Viscount Hailsham | 488 c166 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Secretary of State that I was one of those who voted against war in Iraq? Indeed, I...

Jack Straw | 488 c166 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who took a different view from me in res...

Angus Robertson | 488 c166 (Link to this contribution) This secrecy has absolutely nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with the pro...

Jack Straw | 488 c166 (Link to this contribution) The issue of the intelligence failure has already been very well charted, including by the Butler in...

Sammy Wilson | 488 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not a supporter of the Freedom of Information Act as currently constituted, although I do not t...

Jack Straw | 488 c167 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's conclusion, and Cabinet documents are routinely released after ...

Jack Straw | 488 c165 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept what the hon. Gentleman has said for one moment. Along with my hon. Friend the Membe...

Richard Shepherd | 488 c165 (Link to this contribution) When this provision was passed during a highly contentious debate on the Freedom of Information Bill...

Subjects

Disclosure of information Armed conflict Attorney General Cabinet Freedom of information Iraq Legal opinion International law Ministerial powers Meetings Cabinet papers Iraq conflict Information Commissioner's Office Information Tribunal

Legislation

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Link

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