Meetings with Ministers
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Request: Departmental Minutes of Meetings
1st October - 31st December 2010
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State : Earl Howe
October 2010 : European Medicines Group ‘Introductory Meeting’
ABPI ‘Catch- up Meeting’
Yours faithfully,
Emma Friedmann
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Dear Ms Friedmann,
Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI request (our ref: FOI-1468431).
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Thank you for your letter of 19 September.
For the two meetings with Earl Howe between 1 October - 31 December 2010, namely the European Medicines Group (Introductory Meeting) and the ABPI ( Catch Up Meeting), I requested the Agenda and Minutes for both meetings.
You say in your response that the ABPI meeting alone found over 1500 items to review and that the time involved in such a search/review would easily exceed the £600/24 for ceiling for an individual search.
This is puzzling. If, as is likely, the Agendas and Minutes for each meeting were drafted by Departmental civil servants, would these not be readily identifiable through a computerised document search likely to take a few minutes rather than 24 hours?
Can I please have a response on this point before I decide whether or not to continue with what I thought was a perfectly reasonable (and properly limited) request for disclosure of documents by invoking the jurisdiction of the ICO?
I look forward to hearing from you
Yours faithfully,
Emma Friedmann
Dear Ms Friedmann,
Your requested internal review of FOI-1468431 is now complete. Please see
the attached letter for the outcome.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Internal Reviews
Department of Health and Social Care
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