To provide a list of any contact with any domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry: SSAC FOI response
Updated 6 December 2023
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Date received: 20 February 2023
Date of response: 2 March 2023
1. Information request
Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry.
I would like this information for the period from 1 April 2021 to 20 February 2023.
Contact would primarily include attending or arranging meetings or functions, and responding to correspondence or phone calls.
Please break down the information by:
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Tobacco company or representative’s name
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Date of contact(s)
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Type of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic communication)
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Place of contact, if relevant
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Purpose of contact
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Outcome of contact, including if no action taken
I request that the information be provided electronically. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
2. Response
We do not hold the information you have requested.
The Social Security Advisory Committee is a statutory independent non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions. It has not used agencies to employ temporary, contractor or permanent staff during the specified period.