Heritage meeting 2021

The request was refused by Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Stephen Delahunty

Dear Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,

The culture minister held a meeting with a number of heritage organisations as evidenced below.

https://twitter.com/oliverdowden/status/...

The image in the tweet above appears to show someone taking minutes.

Can you please provide a copy of those minutes, and any/or action points that were agreed.

If the request is to be considered under Section 43 [commercial sensitivity] can you provide a detailed explanation of your decision and how the department weighed the public interest against commercial sensitivity? For example:

For information to be witheld under Section 43, the following MUST be provided:

-Details of the exact FOIA exemption.
-Details of who would be prejudiced – see MoJ guidance above, page 4.
-A “Public Interest Test” where the arguments for and against release of the information should be discussed .
- If release of the information could prejudice a third party, they should be consulted with – see FOIA Section 45 Code of Practice Part IV
- In addition much information from recent public sector contracts should be made available, especially if they are from after 2005, the start date of the FOIA – see ICO Awareness guidance 5 annexe – public sector contracts.

Further, can you identify and provide any information that might not be commercially sensitive?

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Delahunty

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