Annie Wilkes  
By email [FOI #3939 email] 
 
23 December 2008 
 
Dear Ms Wilkes, 
 
Freedom of information request – RFI20081191 
 
I refer to your email of 22 December. You wrote: 
 
“How did you interpret the phrase "David Tennant going off to act at the RSC"? Did you interpret it in the 
strictest sense that David Tennant wasn't "going off to act at the RSC" until he and/or his agent had 
officially signed a contract with the RSC. Or did you interpret it in the sense that I meant it i.e. any contact 
or discussion at all about even the possibility of David Tennant going to act for the RSC, right from the 
moment the idea was floated and before it was finalised.” 
 
I can confirm that we interpreted your request in the wide sense, as you intended. Much of the 
sort of discussion you refer to would have been conducted face-to-face or by telephone, rather 
than by email or letter, and there may therefore be less recorded information than you expected. 
 
In relation to your request for the information marked not relevant, please note that the Act 
provides access to information rather than documents.  
 
The information marked not relevant was the email chain showing that the disclosed information 
was emailed from Julie Gardner to Jan Arwyn Jones (Ms Gardner’s PA) on 13 November at 15:31, 
and then from Jan Arwyn Jones to Melfyn Clywd Roberts (the Freedom of Information rep for 
BBC Wales) on 13 November at 16:17, in order to deal with your request. In order to deal with 
your request more quickly, rather than cutting and pasting the information requested into a 
separate document, I simply used this printout and redacted the information which you had not 
requested. 
 
Yours sincerely, 
 
Rachel Hallett 
Advisor, Information Policy & Compliance 
 

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