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Phillip Main made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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From: Phillip Main
16 April 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
please supply dates of any meetings between BERR and Lord Lamont of
Lerwick with the period 1st Jan 2006 and 15th April 2009 along with
details of all persons present at any such meetings.
Yours faithfully,
Phillip Main
From: Crehan Desmond (IWS)
8 May 2009
Dear Mr Main,
Thank you for your request for information for the dates of any meetings
between BERR and Lord Lamont of Lerwick within the period 1st Jan 2006 to
15th April 2009 along with details of all persons present at any such
meetings.
I regret that we cannot provide this information as the effort to
administer your request would exceed the limit prescribed by Section 12 of
the Freedom of Information Act. This is £600, which represents the
estimated cost of spending 24 hours in determining whether the Department
holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the
information. Above this, we are not obliged to comply with a request.
Official's diaries are not held centrally, therefore to comply with your
request would require, at the minimum, each senior official, within the
various Management Units, carrying out a search of all their available
records, for the period in question, to ascertain if they had any
information within scope of the request. This we are satisfied would
exceed the cost threshold.
However, if you were able to revise your request it will be reconsidered.
When attempting to revise your request you should take into consideration
the length of timeframes, types of documents, or be specific to one area
or group of officials. This may help you revise your request within the
cost threshold. Although we are happy to consider any request further,
this is no guarantee that we will be able to comply.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Des Crehan
FOI Advisor
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From: Phillip Main
8 May 2009
Dear Crehan Desmond (IWS),
If you could put my request to the following persons.
- Sir Brian Bender (Permanent Secretary)
- Hilary Douglas (Chief Operating Officer)
- Mark Gibson (Enterprise and Business Group Director General)
- Philip Rutnam (Enterprise and Business Group Director General)
(replaced Mark Gibson)
- David Hendon (Director Business Relations 2)
- Vicky Pryce (Chief Economic Adviser )
- Patrick Balchin (Policy Advisor, Business Relations
Communications and Content Industries)
- Mary Spoor (Business Relations, Information Hub)
- Debbie Gillatt (Director Communications Networks)
- Rachel Clark (Director Broadcasting and Content)
Yours sincerely,
Phillip Main
From: Phillip Main
9 June 2009
Dear Crehan Desmond (IWS),
Please supply the dates of any meetings between BERR and Lord
Lamont of Lerwick within the period 1st April 2008 to 15th April
2009 along with details of what was discussed.
Yours sincerely,
Phillip Main
From: Crehan Desmond (IWS)
9 June 2009
I am currently out of the office until wed 10 June. My emails are not
being monitored. If it is urgent please contact one of my colleagues in
IRU, otherwise I will respond to your queries on my return.
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Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
From: Crehan Desmond (IWS)
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
10 June 2009
Please find copy of your response to your request, FOI 09/0629. Please
accept my apologies as this appears to have been sent to the wrong email
address.
Can you please confirm if this covers your email of Tuesday 9 June at
22:24.
Regards
Des Crehan
Information Rights Unit
Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
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From: Phillip Main
10 June 2009
Dear Crehan Desmond (IWS),
Thank you,yes the message covers the questions I wished answered.
Yours sincerely,
Phillip Main
Phillip Main left an annotation (10 June 2009)
Email reply went astray. No meetings recorded between the officials mentioned and Lord Lamont.
Phil Main
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P. John left an annotation ( 8 May 2009)
- Sir Brian Bender (Permanent Secretary)
- Hilary Douglas (Chief Operating Officer)
- Mark Gibson (Enterprise and Business Group Director General) (recently left the Civil Service)
- Philip Rutnam (Enterprise and Business Group Director General) (replaced Mark Gibson)
- David Hendon (Director Business Relations 2)
- Vicky Pryce (Chief Economic Adviser )
- Patrick Balchin (Policy Advisor, Business Relations Communications and Content Industries)
- Mary Spoor (Business Relations, Information Hub)
- Debbie Gillatt (Director Communications Networks)
- Rachel Clark (Director Broadcasting and Content)
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