Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide all documentation (minutes, official notes etc) resulting from any meetings between Dept. of Health officials and Society of Homeopaths in the last 2 years.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor Mathers

[email address]

Our ref: DE00000284845

28 March 2008

Dear Mr Mathers,

Thank you for your email of 29 February to the Department of Health
requesting, under the Freedom of Information Act, information about the
Department’s meetings with the Society of Homeopaths over the last two
years. Your email has been passed to me for reply.

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and
electronic records, I have established that the information you requested
is not held by this Department.

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William Scott
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Dear Mr Scott,

Thankyou for your response to FOI request DE00000284845.

Can you confirm whether the information does not exist (i.e. there were no minuted meetings between the SoH and Dept of Health in the last two years) or that they DO exist but are not held within the Dept of Health?

If the latter, I would grateful if you could direct me to the suitable contact.

Yours sincerely,

Trevor Mathers

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Dear Mr Scott,

Thankyou for your response to FOI request DE00000284845.

Can you confirm whether the information does not exist (i.e. there
were no minuted meetings between the SoH and Dept of Health in the
last two years) or that they DO exist but are not held within the
Dept of Health?

If the latter, I would grateful if you could direct me to the
suitable contact.

Yours sincerely,

Trevor Mathers

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Thankyou for your response.

I would draw your attention the Society of Homeopaths webpage (www.homeopathy-soh.org/whats-new/press-releases.aspx)
which contains the following:
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The Society of Homeopaths, ... today announced that it has begun a wide-ranging consultation as it prepares to launch the UK’s first independent single register and regulatory body for homeopaths.

Following a recent meeting with the Department of Health, the Board of the 30 year old Society resolved to divest its self-regulation and governance arm from its membership and continuing professional development functions in order to create a first-class regulatory body, which will govern the professional practice of an expanding number of homeopathy practitioners.
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It appears the SoH claim that there indeed was a meeting. Please confirm that this meeting did, in fact, not take place.

Yours sincerely,

Trevor Mathers

[Subject only] Acknowledgement of case DE00000302968 received by the Department of Health.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Thankyou for your response.

I would draw your attention the Society of Homeopaths webpage
(www.homeopathy-soh.org/whats-new/press-releases.aspx) which contains
the following: ---------- The Society of Homeopaths, ... today
announced that it has begun a wide-ranging consultation as it
prepares to launch the UK’s first independent single register and
regulatory body for homeopaths.

Following a recent meeting with the Department of Health, the Board
of the 30 year old Society resolved to divest its self-regulation and
governance arm from its membership and continuing professional
development functions in order to create a first-class regulatory
body, which will govern the professional practice of an expanding
number of homeopathy practitioners.

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