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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library copies of the internal Home Office guidance documents on (a) answering parliamentary questions for written answer and (b) responses to Freedom of Information requests.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library copies of the internal Home Office guidance documents on (a) answering parliamentary questions for written answer and (b) responses to Freedom of Information requests.
Asked by
Mark Francois
(Conservative)
Answered by
Tony McNulty
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
21 November 2006
For answer on
23 November 2006
Answered on
29 November 2006
The information is as follows."(a) The Home Office provides guidance to officials on written parliamentary questions through its intranet. This guidance is under review as part of the Home Secretary’s commitment to reform the Home Office and to improve the way that the Department’s fulfils its obligations to Parliament. I will arrange for this guidance to be placed in the Library in December following that review. In addition to this guidance, the permanent secretary meets with service heads and directors on a weekly basis at which time they provide him with an update on the Department’s answering of written parliamentary questions.""(b) The Home Office possesses several sets of guidance on the handling of Freedom of Information requests to reflect local procedures in some parts of the Department and its executive agencies. The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND), HM Prison Service, Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Identity and Passport Service (IPS) all possess their own guidance, while the remainder of the Department is served by a further set. I will arrange for this guidance to be placed in the Library by the end of December when a new edition of the current guidance for those parts of the Department not covered by the local guidance will be published internally."The HMPS guidance is already in the public domain at:"http://pso.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/PSO_9020_data_protection_act_1998_and_freedom_of_info_ act.doc."
Subjects
Freedom of information; Home Office; Written questions
Date
29 November 2006
Reference
103544; 453 c775-6W
House
House of Commons