Notes of PM political and policy discussions with media organisations (2022)
Dear Prime Minister's Office,
Please provide all notes , briefings, minutes related to the following meetings
Date: 20/9/2022
Host: Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP
Position: Prime Minister
Department: Prime Minister's Office
Lobbyist: Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp
Purpose: To discuss the priorities of the new government
Date: 10/8/2022
Host: Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP
Position: Prime Minister
Department: Prime Minister's Office
Lobbyist: Chris Evans, Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Purpose: Political Discussion
Date: 9/8/2022
Host: Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP
Position: Prime Minister
Department: Prime Minister's Office
Lobbyist: Ted Verity, Editor of the Daily Mail
Purpose: Political Discussion
Yours faithfully,
Ceri Gibbons
Our ref: FOI2023/01888
Dear Ceri Gibbons,
Thank you for your requests for information which were received on 14th
February. We have aggregated your requests under one case reference
number, FOI2023/01888, as they seek the same or similar information. Your
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Cabinet Office
Dear Ceri Gibbons,
Please find attached our response to your recent Freedom of Information
request (reference FOI2023/01888).
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Cabinet Office
Dear Prime Minister's Office,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Prime Minister's Office's handling of my FOI request 'Notes of PM political and policy discussions with media organisations (2022)'.
I am not satisfied that no record exists. The meetings are listed as political and policy discussions so someone must have been paying attention to what happened and made a note.
It can not be in the interests of democracy that media executives have secret meetings with the Prime Minister on matters of policy and politics and no records are kept. Please review all notes.
Yours faithfully,
Ceri Gibbons.
Dear Ceri Gibbons,
Thank you for your request for an internal review (reference
IR2023/03281), which was prompted by our response to your request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We shall endeavour to complete the internal review and respond to you
within 20 working days.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Dear Ceri Gibbons,
Please find attached our response to your request for an Internal Review
(reference IR2023/03281).
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
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Referred to ICO (28/04/2023)