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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

Please would you provide any minutes or notes of meetings of the PPE Decision-Making Committee that have taken place since 1 Jan 2020. I have not been able to find them published online. However, if they are available online then it will be sufficient to provide the link, together with confirmation that this represents ALL of the meetings held.

I do not know how many such meetings took place and if there is any risk of you denying this request on the grounds of 'excessive cost' then please just provide the information for as many of the meetings (from 1/1/2020 in ascending chronological order) as you are able to within the time constraints allowed.

That said, it would be pretty poor administration for a Government Department if these weren't all filed neatly in one place. It should not, therefore take long to locate and provide them.

If any meetings were held but no minutes or notes were taken of that meeting (knowing that certain parties favoured proceeding being conducted under the 'Chatham House Rule'), then it will be sufficient to provide one email issued to attendees giving the date that the meeting was to be held (ideally an email with the agenda).

Yours faithfully,

David Osborn

Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Mr Osborn,

Thank you for your request of 17 February under the Freedom of Information
Act (our ref: FOI-1497474 - minutes of PPE decision-making committee)

I am writing to inform you that the Department's consideration of the
balance of the public interest with regards to your request is not yet
complete and requires further time to complete in line with Section 10(3)
of the FOI Act.

The Department is currently assessing the public interest in release under
section 43 (commercial interests).

We anticipate this process will take no longer than a further 20 working
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April. 
 
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Yours sincerely,

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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Health and Social Care's handling of my FOI request 'DO-17 Request minutes of PPE Decision Making Committee'.

I submitted my FoI request on Saturday 17 February. As you rightly observed in your reply of 21 February, the Department was required, under the provisions of FoI Act section 10(1), to respond within 20 working days and, if you were unable to do this, you were to contact me before that due-date.

Those 20 working days expired at 23:59 on 15 March and you did not respond within that prescribed time-frame. I therefore wish to submit an appeal by requesting an internal review of your handling of my request for this information. You review should please include your assessment thus far of the ‘Public Interest Test’, since I suspect it lacks any credibility, given your right to redact certain information. As a part of that internal review please would you take into account the following points:

I am pleased to learn that the Department does, in fact, hold the information I requested. Although you don’t explicitly confirm this as per section 1(1)(a) FoI Act, you must surely hold it. Clearly the requested information must exist (and be substantial in nature), in order for there to be any information to consider under the ‘public interest test’.

I am also pleased to learn that, in the absence of any exemption claimed under section 12, the information is readily available without incurring excessive cost.

However, I note that you are seeking to claim an exemption under FOI Act section 43 which reads:
"
43(1) Information is exempt information if it constitutes a trade Commercial secret.
43(2) Information is exempt information if its disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (including the public authority holding it).
"

In order to facilitate your determination of the public interest test, I confirm that I have no interest whatsoever in discovering any information which constitutes a ‘trade Commercial secret’. Neither do have I any interest whatsoever in prejudicing the commercial interests of the Department or any other person/organisation. I will fully understand if you wish to exercise your right to redact any relevant information such as names of suppliers, trade secrets, financial data etc.

However, there should be no need to redact the information I seek other than personal data as usual), For the avoidance of doubt this is any information contained in the minutes/notes of meetings pertaining to any interaction between the PPE Decision Making Committee and any of the organisations: “IPC Cell”, Public Health England, NHS England or HSE which relates to Respiratory Protective Equipment or surgical masks.

I have no interest in matters relating to other forms of PPE (not that surgical masks are “PPE”, although often mistakenly/mischievously referred to as such).

I turn now to your assertion that there may be a “public interest” exemption. I submit that there cannot possibly be any such exemption. It very much is in the public interest (in particular the interests of front line health and social care workers) to know what decisions were made by this committee in relation to RPE and surgical masks during this pandemic. I would respectfully point out that you have no right whatsoever to refuse that information.

You may recall that another FoI I submitted to you on 21 Mar 2021 (IPC Guidance issued by the DCMO to NHS/PHE on 12 Mar 2020) was delayed whilst you prevaricated, yet again claiming another " public interest " exemption. On that occasion you “played the public interest card” on the 28th May 2021, then again on the 29th June, then again on the 27th July, then again on the 24th August, then again on the 22nd September.

On that occasion it actually took TWENTY SEVEN MONTHS for you to recognise the fact that this was not a valid exemption and provide me with the information. (Your references COMDE-1464676, IR-1467886).
I am sure you can understand my frustration when I now see you playing the “public interest card” with me yet again – as will the Information Commissioner should I need to refer this matter to him.

I believe that I was very patient with you during that period. I did not lodge a formal complaint with the ICO and my only contact with them was a phone call to confirm that the Department was in serious breach as regards timescales.

I also ascertained that offences may had been committed under section 77(1) of FoI Act 2000 by individuals (including individuals in the Chief Medical Officer’s department).

Associated with that FoI request in 2021, I also submitted a secondary FoI request - for all email correspondence within DHSC which related to your processing of the above request (FOI-1440903). In that email chain you referred to a letter written to you by the Information Commissioner in relation to the Department's practice of claiming exemption under section 35 (Gov't policy development - which applied to the FoI I submitted in 2021) and section 43 (Commercial Interests) - which you are claiming applies in this case. That ICO letter stated:
"
Section 43 – commercial interests
- Please identify the party or parties whose commercial interests would, or would be likely to be prejudiced if the withheld information was disclosed.
- Is it the DHSC’s position that disclosure “would” prejudice that party’s interests or that it only “would be likely” to cause prejudice?
- Please provide a detailed explanation to support the position that disclosure of the withheld information would, (or would be likely to) prejudice a party’s commercial interests.
Please ensure that you provide evidence which demonstrates a clear link between disclosure of the information that has actually been requested and any prejudice to commercial interests which may occur.

If the prejudice relates to the commercial interests of third parties, in line with the Information Tribunal decision in the case Derry Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2006/0014), the ICO does not consider it appropriate to take into account speculative arguments which are advanced.
"
May I respectfully suggest that you reconsider your decision in the light of the above ICO's instructions to you The instructions, which applied then, presumably still apply now in the event that I escalate this matter to an ICO complaint. You will be asked these same questions and, in view of my express disinterest in any information pertaining to commercial interests I suggest that you will be hard-pressed to answer them and justify why you are withholding the information.
As mentioned, I was reasonable and patient with you during the 27 months of the previous FoI. However, having seen the email chain which exposed the ways in which your staff twisted and turned to avoid divulging the then DCMO’s IPC guidance which denied so many healthcare workers the RPE that they needed to keep safe, I’m afraid that my patience and tolerance has worn thin.
I look forward to a timely response to the outcome of your internal review and receipt of the requested information before the next due date of 18 April 2024, beyond which it is my intention to refer the investigation to the ICO.
Yours faithfully,
David Osborn

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...

Yours faithfully,

David Osborn

FreedomofInformation, Department of Health and Social Care

Dear Mr Osborn,
 
Thank you for your email.
 
We apologise for the continued delay in you receiving a response. We
appreciate this can cause frustration and we will endeavour to provide an
answer before or on 18 April 2024.
 
Regrettably, DHSC does not carry out internal reviews until a FOI response
has been issued.
 
Kind regards
 
DHSC FOI team
 

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Dear FreedomofInformation,

Thank you.

I understand your point about not conducting internal reviews until an FoI response has been issued.
However, my point remains that continued use of the "Public Interest" excuse for not providing that response (as happened multiple times over a 6-month period in 2021) is unacceptable and not at all within the spirit of the legislation or ICO guidance.

Please therefore do more than "ENDEAVOUR" to provide a response before 18 April. Please actually provide the response by 18 April.

Given the flexibility I have shown (i.e. having no interest in trade secrets or commercial/financial matters) there remains no reason why you should not conclude your "consideration of Public Interest" by 18 April.
Furthermore, I can see no justifiable reason for you to claim exemption on these grounds and and any refusal on these grounds will automatically be appealed and then referred to ICO.

Yours sincerely,

David Osborn

Dear FreedomofInformation,

I am writing to respectfully remind you that, as explained in my previous communication, I am expecting a reply to this FoI by Thursday 18 April 2024 (i.e. 2 days time). As mentioned previously, if I have not received the information requested then I do intend to register a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office on the grounds that you are now in breach of the timescales prescribed by law and do not have a reasonable excuse for delaying further.

I reject the notion that it is not in the public interest (commercial interests) to release the information requested and you have now had enough time to decide that matter.

Yours sincerely,
David Osborn

Department of Health and Social Care

Dear Mr Osborn,

Thank you for your request of 17 February under the Freedom of Information
Act (our ref: FOI-1497474 - minutes of PPE decision-making committee)

I am writing to inform you that the Department's consideration of the
balance of the public interest with regards to your request is still not
yet complete and requires further time to complete in line with Section
10(3) of the FOI Act.

The Department is currently assessing the public interest in release under
section 43 (commercial interests).

We anticipate this process will take no longer than a further 20 working
days to complete.  We therefore aim to respond fully to your request by 17
May.  
 
Please accept my apologies for this further delay.
 
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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

Please refer this request to whoever deals with internal reviews / appeals. I request an internal review of this FoI.

Thank you for your response and the minutes that you provided which related to the "PPE Clearance Board". Unfortunately you have not answered the question which you were asked. It was the minutes of the "DHSC PPE Decision Making Committee" (DMC) which I had requested, not the "PPE Clearance Board".

In your letter of 15 May you have redirected me to the Cabinet Office to obtain this information. Given that I am 100% certain that you in DHSC will have been sent copies of the minutes of this committee you should have provided me with those documents in line with the duty imposed on you to assist FoI requestors - and you should still provide them, even if they are only copies.

If it helps, I am happy to narrow down the scope of the request to minutes of that committee which were held in July 2020. If there were less than 3 meetings during July 2020 then please would you include the meetings held during August 2020 as well - or at least as far as your cost allocation for FoI's permits.

Yours faithfully,

David Osborn

Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

Further to my request for an internal review dated 16 May I would like to make it clear that, as a part of that internal review, I would also like you to review the exemptions which you claimed under the public interest test for redaction under section 43(2) and section 31(a)(b)(c) and (g) to ensure that they are valid and lawful.

Yours faithfully,

David Osborn

Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Mr Osborn,

Your requested internal review of FOI-1497474 is now complete. Please see
the attached letter for the outcome.

Yours sincerely,

FOI Internal Reviews
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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

I thank you for your "final" reply.
However, you have not addressed one of the key issues which I specifically requested when asking for an internal review (see my note 22 May 2024) which read:

"Further to my request for an internal review dated 16 May I would like to make it clear that, as a part of that internal review, I would also like you to review the exemptions which you claimed under the public interest test for redaction under section 43(2) and section 31(a)(b)(c) and (g) to ensure that they are valid and lawful."

That is because, of the information that you did send me, you had redacted a significant amount of detail and I am asking you to confirm once more whether or not you consider all those redactions to be lawful, compliant with ICO guidance and would withstand scrutiny by the ICO.

As regards the other aspect of my FoI, I am very surprised at your assertion that DHSC did not have a PPE Decision Making Committee. The reason I am surprised is that there is abundant documentary evidence that there was one. Please would you double check your facts on this as I think you are mistaken.

I have already been lied to by DHSC once before in respect of an earlier FoI request i.e. denying the information requested existed when it did exist and was subsequently provided to me. I am hoping that on this occasion it is just an innocent mistake on your part and, once you have checked, you will provide the information requested.

In particular, I should like to be sent the minutes of the Decision Making Committee meetings from 1 July 2020 onwards - at least as many as you are able to supply without exceeding the cost threshold limit.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...

For the avoidance of doubt, I do not consider this FoI closed.

Yours faithfully,

David Osborn

Department of Health and Social Care

Dear Mr Osborn.

Thank you for your follow-up enquiry relating to our recent IR response.

The purpose of the IR was to review the handling of FOI-1497474. In our
response we confirmed that DHSC does not hold the requested information.
Questions relating to material that was not relevant to your request will
not be addressed as part of the review; only to state that it was released
erroneously.

In respect of the IR response, we have provided you with ICO contact
details to raise a complaint should you still be unhappy with the handling
of your request.

You are, of course, at liberty to submit a new request via the usual
channels.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team
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Dear Mr Osborn,

I am writing with reference to the Freedom of Information request you made
on 17 February, asking to see the minutes or notes of meetings of the PPE
Decision-Making Committee. 

You have complained to the Office of the Information Commissioner about
the Department’s handling of this case.

Following that complaint being made, officials in the Department have
carried out more extensive searches for the information requested and I
can inform you that documents within the scope of your request have been
found.

Officials are preparing those for release to you now within the terms of
the FOI Act and will write to you again as soon as possible to share the
documents.

I apologise for the delay.

The ICO will be sent a copy of this email.

Yours sincerely,

Alan Addison

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Dear Mr Osborn,

I am writing following my email to you of 20 September.  Several documents
relevant to your request were found and due to the number of items within
the scope of your request, Departmental officials consider that the most
efficient way to share them is by using the Egress website: [1]Egress
Secure File Sharing & Collaboration | Products.

In order to enable this we would be grateful if you could provide the
Department with a personal email address where you can receive the access
details. You can do this by writing to [2][DHSC request email].

Please quote the reference : ICO-1522236.  The ICO will be sent a copy of
this email.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Alan Addison

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Dear Mr Addison

Thank you for your reply of 3 October.

Unfortunately, it is a feature of the way WhatDoTheyKnow.com works that their system automatically redacts email addresses from inbound messages for privacy reasons. Therefore I cannot see the email address which you are inviting me to contact. I am unwilling to include my email address in this message in case the auto-reaction by WDTK fails for some reason.

There are many examples whereby public authorities (eg UK-HSA) wishing to provide multiple files to FoI requestors simply pack them up into one single zip file. Please would you send the files by this fairly standard data-transfer mechanism?

If it is the case that you consider the information contained in the documents is too sensitive to put here in the public domain then I accept that it is probably your right to send the information by a means of your choosing. So if you require to send it via the secure 'egress' system then please reply to this message specifying only the FIRST part of the email address you wish me to contact but omitting the 'at' sign and dhsc gov uk.

However, if your purpose in choosing this option is to avoid the information being displayed in the public domain then please be aware of the fact that (depending on the contents) I may share the documents with colleagues in CATA (the Alliance I support as a core participant at the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry) and other interested parties, as well as disclosure to the Inquiry as well - in which case the documents may eventually be disclosed into the public domain anyway.

Yours sincerely,

David Osborn

FreedomofInformation, Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Mr Osborn

Thank you for your email. For the sake of transparency and the avoidance of doubt I have attached a PDF of the email as it was sent on 3 October - the links and email addresses should be visible in the attachment.

As I wrote in that email, there are a large number of documents within the scope of your request and so Departmental officials would like to use the Egress platform to share them with you.

I note your comments about sending the documents using zipped files, and we are also able to do this - however it may not be possible to put all the documents in one folder.

I also note your comments about sharing the documents with third parties. DHSC considers that anything released in response to a FOI request is in the public domain and can be shared anywhere.

Please let me know if you wish to use the Egress system or if you would rather have the files sent to you in zipped folders.

I apologise for the continued delay.

As with my previous email, a copy of this message will be shared with the ICO

Yours sincerely,

Alan Addison
Team Leader - FOI
Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries
Department of Health and Social Care,
39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU

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Dear Mr Addison

Unfortunately the WDTK system stripped out the email address from the PDF attachment to your last message as you can see from this link:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...

Please would you send the information via zipped folders. It will not be a problem if they have to be divided into several folders.

Thanking you in advance.

Yours sincerely,

David Osborn

Dear Mr Addison

I understood from your previous message that all the documents were prepared and ready to send to me.
It should be a relatively quick process to bundle them all up and send as zip files.

Since I have already waited a very long time for this information and a further week has now passed, please would you be so good as to expedite matters and get them sent over to me as soon as possible.

Thanking you in advice

Yours sincerely,

David Osborn

Reilly, Evelyn, Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Mr Osborn,

Please find attached our letter of response to your request, which we will
also be sharing with the ICO. As indicated in the letter, we will be
sending the information to you in two separate emails following this one.
This is due to the size of the files provided.

If you have any issues accessing the material please do let us know and I
would like to apologise once again for the delay in our response.

Kind regards,

Evelyn

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Dear Mr Osborn,

Further to my previous email, please see the find the first set of
documents in the attached zipped folder.

If you have any access issues, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Evelyn

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Dear Mr Osborn,

Further to my previous emails, please see the find the second and final
set of documents in the attached zipped folder.

If you have any access issues, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Evelyn

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Dear Mr Addison, Ms Reilly

Just a note to thank you for the files sent in zipped folders - all safely received.

You had mentioned that there were a lot of files and I am grateful that you sent the supporting documents that were associated with each meeting.

I do appreciate that the work involved at your end processing/redacting that many documents must have taken a considerable amount of time and effort. Please pass on thanks to the staff who carried out the work.

I will feed back to the ICO that all the requested data has been received and the complaint I had lodged with them can now be closed.

Yours sincerely,

David Osborn

Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Mr Osborn,

With apologies for the delay, please find attached the Department of
Health and Social Care's response to your FOI request (our
ref: FOI-1497474).

Yours sincerely, 

Freedom of Information Team
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