Carolyn Harris
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(8 years, 3 months ago)
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Robert Halfon
As I have said, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority will make a huge difference, transform the way infrastructure projects are done in our country and save taxpayers’ money, and it will do a number of other things as well.
Carolyn Harris (Swansea East) (Lab)
12. What recent progress he has made on implementing the Government’s transparency agenda.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Matthew Hancock)
This morning we published further spending transparency data, which the Cabinet Office is committed to do as part of our agenda to be the most transparent Government ever.
Carolyn Harris
I thank the Minister of transparency for that response, but does he not agree that it is very difficult for him to lead by example on the transparency agenda when his own Department is being investigated by the Information Commissioner for refusing to publish routine spending data?
Matthew Hancock
It sounds like the hon. Lady wrote her supplementary question before she got the previous answer, because we published that information this morning. What is more, we are publishing Cabinet minutes at twice the pace that we ever saw under the previous Labour Government.