HC Deb 10 April 2002 vol 383 cc85-6W
Tony Wright

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will list the administrative manuals and internal guidance which his Department has made public as required by Part 1 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information; and which of these were first made available after May 1997. [45394]

Dr. Whitehead

No administrative manuals or internal guidance are currently published though certain material is available on request. Details of the Department's policy for handling public inquiries and the complaints procedure are published on the DTLR website.

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (1) whether the Permanent Secretary of his Department had received(a)oral and (b)written prior permission from Martin Sixsmith to refer to information which would ordinarily be exempt from disclosure under Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in his statement of Monday 25 February; [40955]

(2) which aspects of the public statement made by the Permanent Secretary of his Department on Monday 25 February would ordinarily be exempt from disclosure under Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information; [40950]

Pay Band 3 Pay Band 4 Pay Band 5 Pay Band 6 Pay Band 7 Pay Band 8 SCS Total
Building & Civil Engineer Technician 0 1 6 12 1 0 0 20
Civil Engineer—Professional 0 5 40 197 124 35 15 416
Civil Engineer Design Technician 0 1 3 8 0 0 0 12
Civil Engineer—Highways 0 0 3 5 0 0 0 8
Electrical Engineer 0 3 16 36 12 4 0 71

(3) which aspects of his statement to the House on 26 February 2002, Official Report,column 563, would ordinarily be exempt from disclosure under Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information; [41266]

(4) whether he received (a)oral and (b)written prior permission from Martin Sixsmith to refer to information which would ordinarily be exempt from disclosure under Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in his oral statement to the House of 26 February 2002, Official Report,column 563. [41265]

Mr. Byers

The Code of Practice on Access to Government Information does not require such permission to be obtained.

Each decision on the release of information is considered on its individual merits.