Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference on Friday. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

EDM 492—primarily sponsored by Jo Swinson—is now up on the Parliament EDM site. EDM 492 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (PARLIAMENT) ORDER 2009 19.01.2009 Swinson, Jo That this House notes with concern the provisions in the Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 to remove the expenses of hon. Members and Peers from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act; notes that this Order singl...

Please lobby your Members of Parliament to prevent them from exempting the details of their expenses from Freedom of Information Act requests, Specifically ask them to vote against the draft Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 (.pdf), this Thursday. FOIA campaigner Heather Brook clearly lays out the case for full disclosure and transparency of MP's expenses, just as is routine in t...

Via Bishop Hill, it seems that a Liberal Democrat, Jo Swinson, has put forward an EDM against the disgusting idea that MPs' expenses should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. TEXT OF EARLY DAY MOTION Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 Primary Sponsor: Jo Swinson (LD, East Dunbartonshire) That this House notes with concern the provisions in the Freedom of Information (Parlia...

Chris Huhne launches freedom bill demanding action on ID cards, DNA database and Freedom of Information Act veto The "slow death" of civil liberties must be reversed, the Liberal Democrats said today as the party pledged to scrap 20 laws that it says infringe people's freedom. In a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on the government, Chris Huhne, the party's home affairs spokesman...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new common sense guidance for freedom of information practitioners on how to deal with requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) which relate to individuals’ personal information.

The Liberal Democrats today published their Freedom Bill, designed to "roll back the draconian laws passed by successive Labour and Conservative administrations". You can read more about it on the party's Freedom Bill website. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem shadow home secretary, sets out the case for the bill in a Guardian article: The Liberal Democrats are determined to resist the slow death by a...