Kwasi Kwarteng Saudi Arabia trip
Joseph Lloyd made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I wish to see the following information regarding Kwasi Kwarteng's Saudi Arabia trip in January 2022 :
- The full itinerary and diary of the trip.
- Full copies of any minutes, agendas, action logs and briefing materials for meetings attended on the trip.
- Full copies of notes and transcripts of speeches made on the trip.
- Who paid for travel, accommodation and expenses? How much did this cost? Please break this down by invoice.
- Who else from the BEIS and/or the Conservative party went on the trip?
- Who paid for their travel, accommodation and expenses? (including any second and third parties). Please break this down by invoice.
- Please include any and all funding by second and third parties. Please break this down by invoice.
- Please include all details of any remuneration received by Kwasi Kwarteng for the trip.
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Lloyd
BEIS ref: FOI2022/17383
Dear Mr Lloyd
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 19th
July. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate official at the
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to process.
Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and
we will reply at the latest by 16th August.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information
Rights & Records Unit at BEIS. Please remember to quote the reference
number above in any future communications.
Kind regards,
Information Rights & Records Unit
Information Rights & Records Unit | Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy | 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET |
www.gov.uk/beis | [email address] |
BEIS Ref: FOI2022/17383
Dear Joseph Lloyd,
Thank you for your request for information of 19 July below.
We can confirm that the Department holds information within the terms of your request, however we need more time to consider.
The Freedom of Information Act ('the Act') obliges us to respond to requests promptly and in any case not later than 20 working days after receiving your request. However, when a qualified exemption applies to the information and an accompanying public interest test is engaged, section 10(3) of the Act allows the time for the response to be extended, in which case a full response must be provided within such time as is reasonable in all circumstances. The exemptions which apply to the information that you have requested are s27(1)(a) and (d) (International Relations), s35(1)(a) (Formulation of Government Policy) and s43(2) (Commercial Interests).
The Department has not yet reached a decision on the balance of the public interest. Due to the need to consider, in all the circumstances of the case, where the balance of the public interest lies in relation to the information that you have requested, the Department will not be able to respond to your request in full within 20 working days.
We hope to let you have a response by 14 September 2022.
Yours Sincerely,
Information Rights and Records Unit
[BEIS request email]
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Dear Joseph Lloyd,
Please find attached our response to your information request, our reference FOI2022/17383.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information Rights & Records Unit at BEIS.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communication.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights & Records Unit
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Upper Ground
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
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