Information Access Team
Shared Services Directorate
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Mr Peter Reynolds
[FOI #101285 email]
20 February 2012
Dear Mr Reynolds,
Freedom of Information request – ref. 21488
I am writing further to my e-mail of 23 January 2012 about your request for
information relating to the Home Affairs Select Committee. Your request has been
handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We
are now in a position to provide a full reply to your request.
I am able to disclose the information set out in the enclosed Annex.
I hope that this
information meets your requirements. I would like to assure you that we have
provided you with all relevant information that the Home Office holds.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal
review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months
to the address below, quoting reference 21448. If you ask for an internal review, it
would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Information Access Team
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
e-mail
: [email address] As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request
will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this
response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right
of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the
Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely,
L. Fisher
Annex A
Request
1. Confirm the existence of the committee in 1983
2. The names of the members of the committee in 1983
3. Any records of the committee's meetings and subjects discussed, considered
or inquired into in 1983.
4. Any discussions, consideration or inquiry into cannabis in 1982, 1983 and
1984.
5. Any records of any discussions about discussions, requests, press coverage,
parliamentary references or any other mention anywhere at any time about
the committee discussing, considering or inquiring into cannabis in 1983.
6. Any record of the receipt by the committee in 1983 of a 30 page report from
me entitled "An Unaffordable Prejudice”
Response
1. I confirm the existence of the Home Affairs Select Committee in 1983.
2. I confirm that we hold the information requested. The membership of the
Home Affairs Select Committee on 9 December 1983 was as follows:
Cons
Sir Edward Gardner QC
(Chairman)
Lab
Mr Gerald Bermingham
Cons
Miss Janet Fookes
Cons
Mr Jeremy Hanley
Cons
Mr John Hunt
Lab
Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk
Cons
Mr Fergus Montgomery
Lab
Ms Clare Short
Cons
Mr Ivor Stanbrook
Cons
Mr John Wheeler
Lab
Mr David Winnick
3. I confirm that we hold information that relates to question three of your
request.
This is enclosed at Annex B.
4. Questions four and five have been considered in tandem as there is some
overlap between the two questions. I confirm that we hold information that
relates to these questions.
This is enclosed at Annex C.
5. As above.
6. We do not hold the information requested. We suggest that you contact the
Home Affairs Select Committee directly using the following email address:
[email address]
Annexes B and C are attached separately.