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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Jul 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"15. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of her Department becoming an accredited living wage employer...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Jul 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome those assurances and hope that other Ministers and Secretaries of State will take note. Is the Secretary of State aware of how many direct or indirect employees of her Department have to rely on state welfare benefits to top up their wages at the end of the week?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 Jul 2015
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

"I have been contacted by a number of people who work in the NHS and a number whose lives depend on a successful NHS. Their concern is that TTIP may be the first step along a road towards the kind of health service that we see in parts of north …..."
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Written Question
Department for Education: Freedom of Information
Thursday 9th July 2015

Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions her Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the safety of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.

Answered by Nick Gibb

Section 38(1)(a) and section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were used by the Department for Education on the following numbers of occasions in each of the last 5 years:

Year

s38 (a) and (b)

s38(a) only

s38(b) only

2010

-

-

-

2011

1

-

-

2012

2

1

-

2013

-

-

-

2014

-

1

-

2015

4

-

1

Written Question
Department for Education: Freedom of Information
Thursday 9th July 2015

Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions her Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the physical or mental health of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.

Answered by Nick Gibb

Section 38(1)(a) and section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were used by the Department for Education on the following numbers of occasions in each of the last 5 years:

Year

s38 (a) and (b)

s38(a) only

s38(b) only

2010

-

-

-

2011

1

-

-

2012

2

1

-

2013

-

-

-

2014

-

1

-

2015

4

-

1

Written Question
Department for Education: Freedom of Information
Thursday 9th July 2015

Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what instructions have been given to staff in her Department dealing with freedom of information requests on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No. 19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, in considering whether to apply the exemptions in section 38 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Answered by Nick Gibb

No guidance has been issued to staff on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No.19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, about the application of section 38 of the Act. However, the Ministry of Justice has published guidance on the use of this exemption, which is available at:

www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance