Download or read book Office of the Information Commissioner Annual Report 2006 07 written by Office of the Information Commisioner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Commissioner s Office Annual Report 2006 07 written by Great Britain. Information Commissioner's Office and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the UK's independent public body set up to promote access to official information and to protect personal information. It enforces the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. It also provides guidance to organisations and individuals to promote awareness of information rights and obligations. The Commissioner, who reports directly to Parliament, has the power to order compliance, using enforcement and decision notices and prosecution. This annual report highlights the various issues that surround freedom of information and personal data security. For example, there have been over 200,000 requests for information from public authorities, most of them successful, with members of the public the biggest group of users, with information requests covering such areas as, toxic waste, speed cameras, the performance of surgeons and MP's travel expenses. Another area of concern has been personal information and identity theft, where the purposeful, routine and systematic recording of everyone's movements, activities and transactions in public and private spaces, as led to the notion of a surveillance society. Security lapses in regard of personal information from banks, retailers, government departments and public bodies require organisations to have guaranteed safeguards in place for data protection. The publication is divided into 11 chapters and includes the accounts.
Download or read book Foreign and Commonwealth Office annual report 2006 07 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the Committee's annual review of how the FCO is managing its resources. This year a key area off interest has been the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review because the Committee think it is one of the tightest in Whitehall and it risks jeopardising some of the FCO's important work. Apart from this the other subjects covered are: measuring performance; operational efficiency; management and leadership; FCO services; diplomatic representation overseas; transparency and openness; public diplomacy; British council; BBC World Service.
Download or read book The Information Commissioner s Office Annual Report 2006 2007 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the UK's independent public body set up to promote access to official information and to protect personal information. It enforces the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. It also provides guidance to organisations and individuals to promote awareness of information rights and obligations. The Commissioner, who reports directly to Parliament, has the power to order compliance, using enforcement and decision notices and prosecution. This annual report highlights the various issues that surround freedom of information and personal data security. For example, there have been over 200,000 requests for information from public authorities, most of them successful, with members of the public the biggest group of users, with information requests covering such areas as, toxic waste, speed cameras, the performance of surgeons and MP's travel expenses. Another area of concern has been personal information and identity theft, where the purposeful, routine and systematic recording of everyone's movements, activities and transactions in public and private spaces, as led to the notion of a surveillance society. Security lapses in regard of personal information from banks, retailers, government departments and public bodies require organisations to have guaranteed safeguards in place for data protection. The publication is divided into 11 chapters and includes the accounts.
Download or read book Central Office of Information Annual Report For 2006 07 written by Great Britain: Central Office of Information and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Office of Information annual report For 2006-07
Download or read book The Information Commissioner s Office annual report 2005 2006 written by Great Britain: Office of the Information Commissioner and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) is the UK's independent public body established to promote openness and accountability in the information held by government and public authorities, as well as enforcing data protection and freedom of information legislation and undertaking complaints investigation. The full rights available under the Freedom of Information Act, and the companion Environmental Information Regulations, came into force in January 2005.
Download or read book Information Commissioner Annual Report and Accounts written by Stationery Office Staff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conduct of Nadine Dorries written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a complaint against Mrs Nadine Dorries, MP for Mid Bedfordshire.
Download or read book House of Lords annual report 2006 07 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House of Lords annual Report 2006/07
Download or read book The Black Hole of Public Administration written by Ruth Hubbard and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all. In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration iconoclast Gilles Paquet sound a wake-up call to the federal public service. They lament the lack of “serious play” going on in Canada’s public administration today and map some possible escape plans. They look to a more participatory governance model – “open source” governing or “small g” governance – as a way to liberate our public service from antiquated styles and systems of governing. In their recognizably rebellious style, Hubbard and Paquet demand that public administration scholars and senior level bureaucrats pull their heads out of the sand and confront the problems of the current system and develop a new system that can address the needs of Canada today.
Download or read book Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2007 08 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the Committee's annual review of how the FCO is managing its resources, examining the departmental annual report for 2007-08 (Cm. 7398, ISBN 9780101739825). Chapters cover: new strategic framework; performance measurement; global network; essential services; FCO Services; personnel issues; transparency and openness; financial management; public diplomacy and communication; the British Council; the BBC World Service. The Committee is concerned that the FCO is facing serious financial pressures in this financial year due to the Treasury's withdrawal of its support for the Overseas Pricing Mechanism (OPM) which used to protect departments from the weakening of sterling. There is a risk that the FCO may not be able to meet higher international subscriptions over the next two financial years, causing its performance against Public Service Agreement targets to suffer. The likely increase in the UN Regular Budget and other international subscriptions will push this figure even higher. The FCO should have to shoulder the financial burden from within its already tight budget to pay for subscriptions which also benefit other Government departments. The Committee recommends that additional nondiscretionary costs should properly be met by the Treasury.
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom of Information written by Mr Michael Hunt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the UK's Freedom of Information Act of 2005, which allows public right of access to information held by public authorities, considerable evidence has accumulated about the ways in which the Act has been applied in the interests of democracy and accountability. Until now, there has been little research into these findings at the local level of government. In this detailed review, leading experts in the field consider best practice regarding the operation of the Act, and examine how the Act has enabled the public to contribute to local decision making and debate local issues. The work of the Campaign to Protect Rural England is used as a case study to demonstrate how the work of interest groups may be affected. This timely work addresses the challenges of democracy and efficiency facing local services, and considers how the accountability of local authorities can best be ensured.
Download or read book Brokering Access written by Mike Larsen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the business of public officials any of the public’s business? Most Canadians would argue that it is – that we citizens are entitled to enquire and get answers about our government’s actions. Yet, on a practical level, there still exists a struggle between the public’s quest for accountability and the government’s culture of secrecy. Drawing together the unique perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and access to information (ATI) advocates, Brokering Access explores the history of ATI law and supplies multiple examples of its contemporary application at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. From restrictions to access of airport security data post-9/11 to censorship under the Access to Information Act to the difficulties of obtaining details on streetscape video surveillance, this book reveals the legal and bureaucratic obstacles citizens face when trying to access government information.
Download or read book Protection of private data written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry was prompted by the loss by HM Revenue & Customs, in November 2007, of two CDs containing personal and banking information belonging to all child benefit claimants. The Committee took evidence from Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, and David Smith, his deputy, about this case and the issue of protection of personal data held by Government and other agencies. The Committee concludes that there is evidence of a widespread problem within Government relating to establishing systems for data protection and operating them adequately. The Information Commissioner needs better funding and more powers to enable review of systems for data protection. There is a difficult balance to be struck between the advantages of wider exchange of personal data between Government departments and the protection of personal data. The Committee will return to this topic at a later date, after various inquiries put in train by the Government have reported.
Download or read book H M Treasury annual report and accounts 2006 2007 written by Great Britain: H.M. Treasury and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated June 2007. Supplied via TSO's On-Demand Publishing Service
Download or read book Annual Report Information Commissioner written by Canada. Information Commissioner of Canada and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
