Coaching & preparation for Leveson testimony, and associated costs
Dear Prime Minister’s Office,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I require to know the following:
1) Whether ministers, special advisors, civil servants and other government personnel were coached or in any way given preparation for their testimony to the Leveson enquiry.
2) How any such coaching or preparation was funded.
3) The cost of any such training or coaching.
4) By whom the training/coaching was carried out.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Walker
PLEASE NOTE: Your two requests
([1][FOI #118072 email];
[email address]) have been aggregated and will
be answered with one reply
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: FOI316644
Dear STEVE WALKER
Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received on
31/5/2012 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely,
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Cabinet Office
E: [2][Number 10 request email]
<[3]mailto:[Number 10 request email]>
Dear Prime Minister’s Office,
I write with regard to my FOI request FOI316644, to which your Cabinet office responded that the information was not held in the Cabinet Office's paper or electronic records.
The careful wording of this response, and the fact that I address my enquiry to the Prime Minister's office and not to the Cabinet Office, suggests deliberate evasion.
Coaching (or 'refamiliarisation' to use the PM's laughable term for it) cannot possibly be organised without SOMEONE in government having full records of who received it, who provided it, and who paid for it.
I require your response by return confirming who in fact does have this information - and then I require it to be provided immediately, under the original FOI request, and not under a further 20-day period. I should have had this information no later than 2 July, by law!
Yours faithfully,
Steve Walker
Dear Steve Walker
I can confirm when carrying out searches on your request that the Prime Minister's Office was included.
Would you still like to register an internal review for this request?
Regards
FOI Team
Cabinet Office
Dear FOI Team - Cabinet Office,
Yes please. Someone must have this information and I wish to know who.
Yours sincerely,
Steve Walker
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: IR316644
Dear STEVE WALKER
Thank you for your request for an internal review. Your request was
received on 3/7/2012 and is being dealt with under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely,
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Cabinet Office
E: [1][Number 10 request email]
Dear Mr Walker
Please see attached the reply to your request.
Regards
FOI Team
Knowledge and Information Management (CSG)
Room 3.32 |1 Horse Guards Road |London SW1A 2HQ
Email: [1][Number 10 request email]
Dear Mr Walker
Please see attached the reply to your request.
Regards
FOI Team
Knowledge and Information Management (CSG)
Room 3.32 |1 Horse Guards Road |London SW1A 2HQ
Email: [1][Number 10 request email]
Dear FOI Team - Cabinet Office [Restricted],
Ref your 27/6 response, I am still waiting for the promised information. Please provide it by return.
Yours sincerely,
Steve Walker
Dear Mr Walker
Please see attached further information in regards to your request.
Regards
FOI Team
Knowledge and Information Management (CSG)
Room 3.32 |1 Horse Guards Road |London SW1A 2HQ
Email: [1][Number 10 request email]
Dear Prime Minister’s Office,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Prime Minister’s Office's handling of my FOI request 'Coaching & preparation for Leveson testimony, and associated costs'.
You have claimed that the public interest is best served by withholding the information until you can 'manage' the release, and that the government is committed to doing so.
The government was committed to doing so immediately after the release of the Leveson report, and in an earlier response you used that as an excuse not to respond - but we are now months after the report was issued and there has still been no disclosure. 'Managing' the information appears to mean waiting as long as possible and choosing a time when it can be released with minimal political damage - this does not coincide with the public interest at all, but fits very well with the interests of the government. Government preference is not an adequate cause for withholding FOI information.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
Yours faithfully,
Steve Walker
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: IR316644
Dear STEVE WALKER
Thank you for your request for an internal review. Your request was
received on 29/7/2013 and is being dealt with under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the FOI team.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Cabinet Office
E: [1][Number 10 request email]
Please find attached the reply to your recent onternal review request
Regards
FOI Team
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
Email – [1][Number 10 request email]
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