Dear Sir or Madam,

The following information is requested under the Freedom of
Information Act for the period from 1 January 2008 to date:

The total number of and approximate duration of any meetings held
between David Lammy MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Skills, and the following record industry lobbyists:

- Feargal Sharkey, Kathy Koester or other representatives of UK
Music and British Music Rights;

- Richard Mollett, Geoff Taylor or other representatives of the
British Phonographic Industry;

- John Kennedy or representatives of IFPI;

- Fran Nevrkla or representatives of Phonographic Performance
Limited
.

If you decide to withhold any of the information requested, please
explain clearly why you have done so in your response, by
reference
to the legislation. If your decision to withhold is based upon an
evaluation of the public interest then please clearly explain
which
public interests you have considered and why you have decided that
the public interest in maintaining the exception(s) outweighs the
public interest in releasing the information.

If you are proposing to make a charge for providing the information
requested then please provide full details in advance together
with
an explanation of any proposed charge.

We look forward to hearing from you promptly, as required by the
legislation, and in any case within 20 working days. We would be
grateful if you could acknowledge safe receipt of this request by
email.

Yours faithfully
,

Michael Holloway, Operations Manager, Open Rights Group

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number
2008/0107122.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

You should have responded to my freedom of information request
concerning meetings held with record company lobbyists by 21
January 2009 so are now breaking the law.

Would you please explain this delay and provide a substantive
response as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Holloway

Dear Mr Holloway
Thank you for your e-mail of 18 December, in which you requested
information under the Freedom of Information Act, about meetings which
took place for the period from 1 January 2008 to 18 December 2008 between
David Lammy MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills, and the
following named individuals and representative organisations:

Feargal Sharkey, Kathy Koester or other representatives of United Kingdom
Music and British Music Rights;

Richard Mollett, Geoff Taylor or other representatives of the British
Phonographic Industry;

John Kennedy or representatives of IFPI; and

Fran Nevrkla or representatives of Phonographic Performance Limited.

In a subsequent e-mail, dated 5 January 2009, you asked us to include any
meetings which had occurred between the above named individuals and any
previous occupants of the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
for Skills which had again taken place since 1 January 2008.

The following is a list of all those meetings which meet the criteria set
out in your request:

David Lammy

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Organisation |Representative |Date |Duration |
|----------------------------+-----------------+------------+------------|
|British Music Rights |Feargal Sharkey |28/10/2008 |45 minutes |
|----------------------------+-----------------+------------+------------|
|British Music Association |Richard Mollet |28/10/2008 |45 minutes |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Baroness Morgan

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Organisation |Representative |Date |Duration |
|--------------------+-----------------------------+----------+----------|
|British Music Rights|Feargal Sharkey and Kathy |05/03/2008|45 minutes|
| |Koester | | |
|--------------------+-----------------------------+----------+----------|
|British Phonographic|Geoff Taylor and Richard |28/04/2008|45 minutes|
|Industry |Mollet | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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I hope this information is helpful.
Yours sincerely

Paula Simpson
Public Communications Unit

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