Future of Money workshop in May 2013
Dear Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I seek the following information:
As mentioned in a previous FOI response (BIS reference: 13/1141) the "Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre" in collaboration with
HMRC, facilitated a Future of Money workshop in May 2013 looking at what money and digital currency might look like in 2020. I request:
- A list of all attendees
- A copy of any materials distributed to attendees before, during or after the workshop
- A list of all speakers and topics they covered
- The full schedule for this workshop
- Any video or audio recordings of this workshop
- Any transcriptions of this workshop
- All subsequent reports/summaries/conclusions/evaluations of this workshop
If any part of this request cannot be fulfilled I expect the other requests to be fulfilled as far as possible. If the decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in the Data Protection Act, please inform me of that
fact and cite the exemptions used.
If you need any clarification then please do not hesitate to contact me. Under Section 16 it is your duty to provide advice and assistance and so I would expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in any way.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you within the 20-working day statutory time period.
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Gullen
BIS ref: 13/1286
Dear Mr Gullen
Thank you for your further request for information which was received on
17 September 2013. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate
official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to deal
with.
Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be responded at the latest by 15 October
2013.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the information
rights unit at BIS. Please remember to quote the reference number above in
any future communications.
Kind regards,
Information Rights Unit
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Dear Mr Gullen
Please see the attached reply to your BIS FOI request, ref 13/1286.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information
Rights Unit at BIS.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Kind regards,
Information Rights Unit
Information Rights Unit
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Victoria 3, 5th Floor
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
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Dear Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills's handling of my FOI request 'Future of Money workshop in May 2013'.
Point 1 requested "A list of all attendees" for this workshop. This was denied:
"Names of attendees have been withheld under section 40(2) of the FOI Act".
I was expecting you to provide me a list of all business, organisations and government departments that attended this event (which fall under the scope of my original request). Also if possible, a simple count of how many people from each of these businesses, organisations or government departments attended the event.
Please provide me with this list.
Also, a "public interest test" was also cited as a reason for denying my request. How am I supposed to trust the results of these public interest tests if I am not provided the results and it is all done in secret?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Gullen
BIS ref: IR/13/1286
Dear Thomas
Thank you for your request for an internal review which was received on 15 October 2013. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to deal with.
In line with the Information Commissioner's guidance, internal reviews should be responded to within 20 working days unless they are complex, in which case a response should be sent within 40 working days. Please be aware that this does not include weekends and bank holidays. The Department aims to respond to requests for internal reviews as quickly as possible. We hope to be in contact with you again shortly with a decision on your request.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information Rights Unit at BIS. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Kind regards,
Information Rights Unit
Information Rights Unit | Department for Business, Innovation & Skills | Victoria 3, 5th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ETwww.bis.gov.uk
Dear Mr Gullen
Please see the attached reply to your request for an internal review of
BIS FOI 13/1286.
Kind regards,
Information Rights Unit
Information Rights Unit
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Victoria 3, 5th Floor
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
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