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Courts and Tribunals Fees

Proceeding contribution from Andy Slaughter (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 July 2016. It occurred during Estimates day on Courts and Tribunals Fees.

I commend the hon. Gentleman on many of the recommendations in the report, but—as I would, I suppose—I want to highlight one that I think is slightly problematic. The Justice Committee went along with the decision of the independent commission on freedom of information to disallow appeals from the Information Commissioner to the first-tier tribunal, despite the fact that 20% of those appeals are successful. Would the hon. Gentleman like to look at that again? The Select Committee stated in its report:

“We see no reason to disagree with the Commission’s view.”

Has the hon. Gentleman simply gone along with the view of the commission? What is his reason for making that decision?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
612 c643 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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