Reference Case Number: FOI11201
Freedom of Information: Right to know request:
Please provide minutes of meetings between these FCA representatives and the following people:
John Griffith Jones
28 November 2016 Lord Bridges
Richard Lloyd
13 October 2022 Baroness Dianne Hayter
30 November 2022 Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Nikhil Rathi
23 July 2021 The Lord Hollick
Charles Randell
22 February 2021 Lord Currie of Marylebone
21 January 2020 The Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan
08 January 2019 Baroness Tyler
Sheldon Mills
14 April 2021 Lord Leigh of Hurley and Alberto Costa MP
Andrew Bailey
29 July 2019 The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted and Viscount Hanworth
For each of these meetings please also provide any correspondence relating to the meeting between the FCA representative in question and the people they have met, in the following 30 days subsequent to their meeting; e.g. for John Griffith Jones, any correspondence with Lord Bridges from 28 November 2016 until 28 December 2016 (etc. for the other meetings).
FCA response:
In respect of the information you have requested, we can provide some of it to you, as set out in the attached document (Annex B).
Regarding all other relevant information which we hold, we are exempted from providing it to you because section 36 (prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs) of FOIA applies.
This is because, for the reasons set out in Annex C below, we are of the view that disclosing this information would be likely to restrict the free and frank exchange of views when considering issues and could prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs.
In addition, some of the information within scope contains the personal information of individuals other than yourself, where we consider disclosure would not be in accordance with the UK GDPR. We are therefore exempted from disclosing it to you under section 40 (Personal information) of FOIA.
Finally, we are prohibited from disclosing some of the information because it is ‘confidential information’ for the purposes of section 348 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) and which the FCA has received in the discharge of its public functions. We are therefore exempt from the duty to disclose it to you under section 44 (Prohibitions on disclosure) of FOIA.
For more information on why we are applying the above exemptions, please see Annex C below.