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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/181679.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 181679
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Department for Business and Trade
The complainant has submitted a request to the Department for International Trade (DIT) (now, Department for Business and Trade, DBT) seeking correspondence between Ben Houchen, (Tees Valley Mayor) and Lord Grimstone and details of meeting between them for the period March 2020 to November 2021. DIT confirmed that it held information falling within the scope of the request and disclosed some of this to the complainant but withheld the remainder on the basis of the following sections of FOIA: 27(1)(a), (c) and (d) (international relations), 29(1)(a) (economy), 36(2)(b)(i), (ii) and (c) (effective conduct of public affairs), 40(2) (personal data), 41(1) (information provided in confidence) and 43(2) (commercial interests).FOI 36(2)(b)(i): Complaint not upheld FOI 36(2)(c): Complaint not upheld FOI 43(2): Complaint not upheld FOI 27: Complaint not upheld FOI 40(2): Complaint not upheld FOI 29(1)(a): Complaint not upheld FOI 36(2)(b)(ii): Complaint not upheld
Decision notice: 181679