Evidence given to House of Lords committees by seven opaque and deceptive policy groups
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please provide me with the following information:
(1) Please indicate the number of times individuals representing the following organisations gave evidence to House of Lords committees during the calendar year 2016, broken down by individual organisation and by committee, indicating in each case whether the evidence given was written and/or verbal, and providing in each case a hyperlink to the evidence that was submitted:
a) Policy Network
b) Policy Exchange
c) Institute of Economic Affairs
d) Civitas
e) Centre for Policy Studies
f) Adam Smith Institute
g) International Institute for Strategic Studies
(2) Please supply a list of disclosure forms (and/or functional equivalents) that individuals and/or groups submitting written and/or verbal evidence to House of Lords committees must complete, and provide a link to these form(s) and/or functional equivalent(s).
Some background information relevant to this FOI request can be found here:
New House Rules Go After Think Tank Funding
http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2015/01/ne...
Transparify report on UK Think Tanks 2017: Transparency, Lobbying and Fake News
http://bit.ly/2kpfE9x
Thank you for your time, best wishes,
Till Bruckner
Dear Till,
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Lords.
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below. For future reference you may wish to be aware that you can seek
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Energy & Environment Sub-Committee
Written x 1:
[1]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
Economic Affairs Committee
Oral x 2:
[2]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
and
[3]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
Written x 2:
[4]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
and
[5]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
International Relations Committee
Oral x 1:
[6]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
Licensing Act 2003 Committee
Oral x 1:
[7]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
JCHR
Oral x 1:
[8]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
Written x 1:
[9]http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...
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Dear HL FOI & Information Compliance,
thank you very much. I wish US authorities were as prompt and diligent in replying to FOI requests.
Yours sincerely,
Till Bruckner
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