Central Policy
John Sharpe
Information Strategy Team
Room 4/52
100 Parliament Street
London SW1A 2BQ
Messrs, Jagger, Lydiatt, Kloot, Khanna, Bromfield, Blanks &
Balfour
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Fax
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Email [email address]
Date
20 November 2009
www.hmrc.gov.uk
Our Ref
As appendix
Your Ref
________
Dear Sirs,
I refer to your request for information identified in the appendix to this letter. It is one of
number of requests received from others, also listed in the appendix.
By this letter, which is being sent you and to each of the others listed in the appendix, I reply
under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
The regulations coming out of section 12(4) FOIA provide that, in prescribed circumstances,
a public authority may aggregate requests for the purposes of the cost of compliance where
two or more requests are made by:-
• One
person,
or
• Different persons who appear to the public authority to be acting in concert or in
pursuance of a campaign
and
• Relate to the same or similar information
and
• Have been received by the public authority within a space of 60 consecutive working
days
The requests listed in the appendix fulfil all of those criteria and consequently are being
aggregated by HMRC. Section 12 FOI makes provision for public authorities to refuse
requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate
limit, which for central government is set at £600. This represents the estimated cost of one
person spending 3.½ working days in determining whether the department holds the
information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
Information is available in large print, audio tape and Braille formats.
Type Talk service prefix number – 18001
We estimate that it will take us in excess of 3.½ working days to determine appropriate
material and locate, retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request.
Therefore, your request will not be processed further.
You may wish to refine your request by narrowing its scope by being more specific about
what information you particularly wish to obtain, including any dates or period of time
relevant to the information required.
If you are not happy with this reply you may request a review by writing to HMRC FOI Team,
Room 4/52, 100 Parliament Street London SWIA 2BQ or by e-mail to
[email address] . You must request a review within 2 months of the date of this
letter. It would assist our review if you set out which aspects of the reply concern you and
why you are dissatisfied.
If you are not content with the outcome of an internal review, you may apply directly to the
Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner will not usually
consider a case unless you have exhausted the internal review procedure provided by
HMRC. He can be contacted at The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
John Sharpe
HMRC
NAME DATE
REC’D
REQUEST
FOI REF
2029/09 Jagger
26/08/09
Can
HMRC
publish the minutes of meetings held
between 1st October 2007 and 31st December 2007,
where the pective provision announced in Budget Note
66 2008 was discussed.
2337/09
Jagger
22/10/09
Can HMRC supply copies of minutes of all meetings
which took place between 1/7/07 and 30/9/07, where the
measure in Budget Note 66 (2008) was talked about.
2364/09 Lydiatt
29/10/09
Can
HMRC
publish
the minutes of any meetings which
were held during May or June 2007, where the double
taxation scheme closed by Section 58 of Finance Act
2008 was discussed.
2376/09
Kloot
2/11/09
Please can HMRC supply copies of the minutes of any
meetings held during the month of February 2007, which
discussed the scheme referred to in Budget Note 66
published on 12th March 2008.
2408/09
Khanna
7/11/09
I would like to request copies of any minutes from
meetings which took place in April 2007, where the
scheme in s.58 FA2008 was under discussion.
2410/09 Bromfield 7/11/09
In
reference
to the scheme closed by section 58,
Finance act 2008. Can HMRC supply the minutes of
meetings that took place during October 2007, where
the scheme was mentioned?
2411/09
Thorn
9/11/09
Could you please publish the minutes of meetings,
where the scheme covered by section 58 finance act
2008 was discussed, which took place during November
2007.
2416/09
Blanks
9/11/09
Request pertains to the scheme dealt with by section 58
of the 2008 finance act.
Can you provide copies of the minutes from HMRC
meetings held in the month of September of 2007,
where this scheme was a topic of discussion.
2418/09
Balfour
11/11/09
Please provide copies of the minutes of any meetings
which took place during December 2007, where any of
the schemes covered by section 58 of the 2008 finance
act were discussed.
