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P Newton
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
FOI Reference: FOI2020/04566
29/04/2020
Dear P Newton
I refer to your request where you asked:
“Freedom of Information request - Corporate Charter
Dear Office of the Parliamentary Counsel,
This is a request for information recorded pursuant s.1 Freedom of Information Act
2000.
Sheppard in his Abridgement Vol I, concludes that Parliament is a Corporation.
1. Please provide a copy of Parliaments corporate charter.
A corporation is a person or persons in a political capacity, created by the law, and
styled a body politic: that is, framed by policy or fiction of law, to endure in perpetual
succession with capacity to take and grant, sue and be sued. Wood. b. 1. c. 8.
2. Please provide the total number of members currently sitting and or residing within
the Parliamentary corporation.
3. How much in total funds do those members pay into the corporation on an annual
basis, taking 2018 as an example year?”
I am writing to advise you that fol owing a search of our paper and electronic records, I
have established that the information you requested is not held by the Cabinet Office.
You may wish to contact the House of Commons. I have enclosed here for your
convenience the email address of the House of Commons Freedom of Information
team, who may be able to help further: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the FOI Team quoting the
reference number above.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request or wish
to request an internal review, you should write to:
Eirian Walsh Atkins
Cabinet Office
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London
SW1A 2AS
email: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
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internal review if it is received more than two months after the date that the reply was
issued. If you are not content with the outcome of your internal review, you may apply
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cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided
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Yours sincerely
FOI Team
Cabinet Office