Full, accurate and complete disclosure of SARS-COV-2 virus records
Dear Privy Council Office,
Please provide a full, accurate and complete list of records held within your office, and or under your authority, describing the isolation of a SARS-COV-2 virus, directly taken from a symptomatic patient of COVID-19 where the sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic material (not limited but by way of example monkey kidney cells, aka vero cells, liver cancer cells) thereby eliminating contamination as a possible alternative source of sampling.
Please note isolation is used in the normally understood meaning of the word – the act of separating a thing from another. I am not referring, and hence not requesting, to isolation meaning the culture of something else, the performance of an amplification test (eg PCR test which only detect mRNA or DNA) or the sequencing of “something”.
If any records match the above description and are available to the public elsewhere, please provide enough information so that I may identify and access each record with certainty (i.e. title, author(s), date, journal, and weblink or location where the public may access it).
I remind you full, accurate and complete disclosure is required.
Yours faithfully,
Marc Horn
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Dear Marc Horn
I refer to your FOI request below to the Privy Council Office.
Please note that the Privy Council Office is part of the Cabinet Office
and your email has therefore been forwarded
to [1][email address]
for reply.
Yours sincerely
Margaret Newell
Privy Council Office
Room G/04
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ
0207 271 3292
Dear PCO Enquiries Mailbox,
You are in breach of your legal duties and obligations of providing the required information by the 21 August 2020 to allow full accountability of your actions to the public.
Please immediately correct your breach within the next 3 working days.
Yours sincerely,
Marc Horn
Thank you for your enquiry. If this matter is within the Privy Council
Office remit, you should hear back from us within 15 working days.
For general information about the Privy Council and this Office please
visit - [1]https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/
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Privy Council Office
Room G/04
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ
0207 271 3292
[2]http://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk
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Dear Marc Horn
As advised in my email of 27 July, the Privy Council Office is a
constituent part of the Cabinet Office, and not a separate Public
Authority for the purposes of the FOIA. Your request was therefore
forwarded to CO FOI Team for reply.
The Cabinet Office replied to your request on 18 August - please see this
link:
[1]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Your request has therefore been complied with.
Regards
Margaret Newell
Privy Council Office
Room G/04
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ
0207 271 3292
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