Contacts with tobacco industry
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry.
I would like this information for the period from 1 April 2021 to 20 February 2023.
Contact would primarily include attending or arranging meetings or functions, and responding to correspondence or phone calls.
Please break down the information by:
• Tobacco company or representative’s name
• Date of contact(s)
• Type of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic communication)
• Place of contact, if relevant
• Purpose of contact
• Outcome of contact, including if no action taken
I request that the information be provided electronically. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Raouf Alebshehy
Good morning Raouf,
This is to confirm that we have received your request and will be dealing
with it.
Best Regards
Toyin Akinmulero.
Thank you for your request for information, received by the Office on 20
February 2023. This request is being treated under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'FOI Act'). Your request was as
follows:
Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or
staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan
Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other
domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the
tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry.
I would like this information for the period from 1 April 2021 to 20
February 2023.
Contact would primarily include attending or arranging meetings or
functions, and responding to correspondence or phone calls.
Please break down the information by:
• Tobacco company or representative’s name
• Date of contact(s)
• Type of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app
message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic
communication)
• Place of contact, if relevant
• Purpose of contact
• Outcome of contact, including if no action taken
Having reviewed your request, I have gone through our correspondence and
can find no instances of us making or receiving communication from the
organisations named. I am unable to confirm whether any phone calls were
made as we do not keep phone records but found nothing to indicate that
any phone calls were made.
We publish all communications made by the Registrar monthly on our website
and this can be found using the URL
[1]https://registrarofconsultantlobbyists.o....
If you have any questions about the content of this reply, please contact
me directly, using the contact details below. If you are not content with
this response, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner.
The details of how to do so are set out on the website of the Information
Commissioner's Office:
[2]https://ico/org.uk/make-a-complaint.
Regards
Sarah
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