Involvement of Colin Roberts in the creation of MPA in the Chagos islands

The request was refused by Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

I would like to receive information regarding Mr Colin Roberts' activities pertaining to the establishment of a Marine Protection Area at Chagos.

I would like to see, for any meeting held between July 2008 and April 2010, where Mr. Roberts was present and where `Chagos` featured on the title, agenda or minutes:

* The date of the meeting
* The names of the participants and organisation for which they represent.
* Minutes of the meeting

Also, any record of communication, email, telephone, meetings, or otherwise, between Mr. Roberts and any of the following people or entities:

* William Marsden CMG (Ex chairman CCT)
* Simon Hughes (CCT)
* Eric Blencowe (Defra)
* John Robbs (Defra)

* The Chagos Conservation Trust
* Imperial College’s Marine Resources Advisory Group
* United Kingdom Overseas Territories Conservation Forum
* Pew Charitable Trust

Lastly, a copy of any email for which Mr. Roberts is either sender or recipient, where the body or subject contains one of the following keywords:

* Chagos
* MPA
* nature reserve
* exclusion zone
* Pew
* Chagossian

Yours faithfully,

W Barbour

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

FOI Request, Ref: 0410-12

 

Dear W Barbour

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been assigned a
unique reference number (above) and has been passed to the relevant
section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will
be in touch with you should your request need clarification.

 

We received your request on 10 April 2012 and will aim to respond within
20 working days.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Information Rights Team

FCO

 

 

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"Your request as presently formulated is widelyframed and I estimate that it will take more than 3 ½ working days to locate, retrieve and extract this information. In these circumstances we are not obliged under the Act to comply with your request. You may therefore wish to refine your request to narrow its scope to bring it within the appropriate limit."