Original request
Summary of request
Full 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 23 April 2023- 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:
- Tobacco company or representative’s name
- Date of contact(s)
- Type of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic communication)
- Place of contact, if relevant
- Purpose of contact
- Outcome of contact, including if no action taken.
Response
I refer to your request for information (FOI 24-25/103) dated 14 March 2025 for “contact your organisation and/or staff” have had with any “domestic or transnational tobacco companies” which we have handled under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA).
Please note that we have conducted a search and have had no contact as described by the request. As such, I have applied section 17(1)(b) of FOISA as this information is not held.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may contact informationgovernance@gtcs.org.uk to request GTC Scotland conduct a review of it. You should describe the original request and explain your grounds of review. You have 40 working days from receipt of this response to submit a review request. When the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you may use the Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal to do so.
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