§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to require all task forces and equivalent bodies sponsored by his Department to publish their working papers and minutes on the Internet. [58773]
§ Ms JowellThe Department is committed to encouraging greater openness of those public bodies which it sponsors, whenever this is practical or appropriate. Any decision to publish information on any of those bodies on the Internet will be taken on a case-by-case basis, in line with the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information1.
1 Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, Second Edition (1997), The Stationery Office Ltd.