To request information on contact or involvement with the tobacco industry
Updated 30 April 2025
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Date received: 14 March 2025
Date of response: 26 March 2025
Information request
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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 23 April 2023 to 10 March 2025.
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
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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
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. Neither the Committee nor its staff have had any contact with any of the organisations referenced in your request during the period you have specified.