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Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill

The point I wished to intervene on was that the right hon. Gentleman referred to the amount of amendments that had been tabled and said that that was part of a movement to oppose the entire Bill. Does he accept that one of the reasons for that is his failure to justify his Bill? He has not spoken in favour of it until now. Also, the point that the right hon. Gentleman is now making would have been covered by an amendment which he has voted against. The issue on which he is depending is that the Bill is required in order to protect correspondence about individual constituents, but he voted against an amendment which narrowed the protection precisely to that point, and which stopped the protection in his Bill in respect of much wider areas of correspondence. Will he use the opportunity of this Third Reading speech to justify that?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
460 c913 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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