{"id":66447,"date":"2016-01-14T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3e728ac65baac9c2354e705f7afd209e"},"modified":"2016-01-14T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:19:51","slug":"news-story-freedom-of-information-oral-evidence-sessions-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66447","title":{"rendered":"News story: Freedom of information oral evidence sessions in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Independent Commission on Freedom of Information is open to receiving evidence from a wide range of interested parties. The Commission will hold 2 oral evidence sessions providing an opportunity for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>those who have already submitted written evidence to explain further, or <\/li>\n<li>those who the Commission considers will provide a perspective not covered in written evidence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sessions will be held on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 January from 1pm to 4pm in the Attlee Suite<\/li>\n<li>25 January from 10am to 5pm in the Macmillan Room<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both events will be held at First Floor, Portcullis House, Bridge Street, London SW1A 2LW.  <\/p>\n<p>The sessions will be before the full panel of Commissioners: Lord Burns (Chairman), the Rt Hon Jack Straw, the Rt Hon Lord Howard of Lympne, Lord Carlile of Berriew and Dame Patricia Hodgson.  <\/p>\n<p>The following witnesses will attend the sessions:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"january-2016\">20 January 2016<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Witnesses<\/th>\n<th>Time<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Information Commissioner: Christopher Graham<\/td>\n<td>1pm to 2pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rt Hon Lord McNally<\/td>\n<td>2pm to 2:25pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>National Police Chiefs Council: Ian Readhead and Mark Wise<\/td>\n<td>2:25pm to 2:50pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>38 Degrees: Blanche Shackleton<\/td>\n<td>2:50pm to 3:15pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lord O\u2019Donnell<\/td>\n<td>3:15pm to 3:40pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 id=\"january-2016-1\">25 January 2016<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Witnesses<\/th>\n<th>Time<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Taxpayers\u2019 Alliance: Jonathan Isaby<\/td>\n<td>10am to 10:25am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Liberty: Sam Hawke<\/td>\n<td>10:25am to 10:50am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Local Government Association: Councillor David Simmonds<\/td>\n<td>10:50am to 11:15am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Universities UK: Nicola Dandridge<\/td>\n<td>11:15am to 11:40am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Health and Safety Executive: Peter McNaught<\/td>\n<td>11:40am to 12:05pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NHS Providers: Chris Hopson<\/td>\n<td>12:30pm to 12:55pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kent County Council: Caroline Dodge and Geoff Wild<\/td>\n<td>12:55pm to 1:20pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Society of Editors and the Press Association: Bob Satchwell and Peter Clifton<\/td>\n<td>1:20pm to 2:10pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP<\/td>\n<td>2:25pm to 2:40pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Rt Hon Lord Beith<\/td>\n<td>2:40pm to 3:05pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Professor Christopher Forsyth and Professor Richard Ekins<\/td>\n<td>3:05pm to 3:30pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Campaign for Freedom of Information: Maurice Frankel<\/td>\n<td>3:30pm to 4:30pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Public seating will be available on a first come basis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on 20 January there will be 65 seats available for the public and 15 seats for the media<\/li>\n<li>on 25 January there will be 30 seats available for the public and 10 seats for the media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the sessions are being held in a busy building, please allow up to 30 minutes to get through security.  <\/p>\n<p>The sessions will be recorded and transcribed. The transcriptions will be published on the Commission\u2019s GOV.UK webpages as soon as possible afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Commission on Freedom of Information will hold 2 oral evidence sessions to hear from a range of interested parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}