Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

John Leech Excerpts
Thursday 31st October 2013

(10 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Maria Miller Portrait Maria Miller
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I, like my hon. Friend, believe transparency is incredibly important, and in particular for the BBC for the reasons I have just given regarding what licence fee payers expect. Detailed decisions about the disclosure of personnel information are squarely for the management of the BBC, but I understand the point my hon. Friend makes.

John Leech Portrait Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington) (LD)
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Does the Secretary of State agree that senior executives who have resigned rather than been sacked should get no compensation, and that if they were sacked it should not be covered up as though they had resigned?