Blacklisting

Dear Sir or Madam,

In a Guardian article on 28 June 2008
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jun...) it was
stated:

"A spokesman for the Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform explains that the government carried out a
consultation and concluded that as blacklists didn't operate in the
UK, legislation was unnecessary."

As you may be aware, the Information Commissioner's Office has
recently discovered exactly such a blacklisting operation that has
been operation for many years, as has always been suspected.
(http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/p...)

In light of this, please can you provide all studies, papers and
other relevant documents relating to the existance and/or
regulation of such blacklists.

Please also provide copies of any communication regarding this
topic between yourselves and the companies listed by the
Information Commissioner as having been party to this blacklisting
operation, namely:

Amec Building Ltd,
Amec Construction Ltd,
Amec Facilities Ltd,
Amec Ind Div,
Amec Process & Energy Ltd,
Amey Construction,
B Sunley & Sons,
Balfour Beatty,
Balfour Kilpatrick,
Ballast (Wiltshire) PLc,
Bam Construction (HBC Construction),
Bam Nuttall (Edmund Nutall Ltd),
C B & I,
Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd,
Costain UK Ltd,
Crown House Technologies,
(Carillion/Tarmac Const),
Diamond M & E Services,
Dudley Bower & Co Ltd,
Emcor (Drake & Scull),
Emcor Rail,
G Wimpey Ltd,
Haden Young,
Kier Ltd,
John Mowlem Ltd,
Laing O’Rourk (Laing Ltd),
Lovell Construction (UK) Ltd,
Miller Construction Limited,
Morgan Ashurst,
Morgan Est,
Morrison Construction Group,
N G Bailey,
Shepherd Engineering Services,
Sias Building Services,
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd,
Skanska (Kaverna/Trafalgar House Plc),
SPIE (Matthew Hall),
Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd,
Turriff Construction Ltd,
Tysons Contractors,
Walter Llewellyn & Sons Ltd,
Whessoe Oil & Gas,
Willmott Dixon,
Vinci PLC (Norwest Holst Group)

This – of course – includes such documents and communications held
by your department when it went under its previous name of the
Department of Trade and Industry.

I'm sure you'll appreciate the strong public intrest in having any
such documents and communications made public in light of recent
events.

Yours faithfully,

S J S Jackson