End of the road for Tory’s FOI dilution bill?

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End of the road for Tory’s FOI dilution bill?

By Stephen Tall | Wed 13th June 2007 - 12:01 pm

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The Press Gazette reports:

A controversial attempt to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information Act faces possible collapse today due to lack of support in the House of Lords.
Tory MP David Maclean has until the end of today’s proceedings to find a peer willing to sponsor his Private Members’ Bill in the upper chamber.
Opponents of the measure said that if no one comes forward by then, the Bill will effectively die due to lack of parliamentary time.

The article quotes Lib Dem peer, Lord (Tom) McNally:

“I think it would be better for the reputation of both Houses if this bill died an orphan. You don’t change a major piece of legislation like this by the backdoor on a Friday afternoon.”

Fingers crossed the Labour/Tory alliance which has so far smiled on this bill’s attempts to weaken the still-inadequate FOI Act will end in failure.

And if you’ve not yet signed the Lib Dems’ petition to consign it to the dustbin of history, you know what to do…

Read more by Stephen Tall .
This entry was posted in News and Online politics.

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2 Comments

Tony Greaves 14th Jun '07 - 10:34pm

It’s dead. Not a single peer could be found to introduce it.
Fran Oborski 14th Jun '07 - 11:05pm

Thank God for the common sense of the unelected House!

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