Response from Mr David Jones MP/AS
I would like to draw your attention to the enclosed
question number 233096: "To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer,
when he last met the Icelandic Trade Minister".
The question was tabled as a named day question
and received a holding answer on 4 November. On 10 November I
received the enclosed answer, which, frankly, is obfuscatory and
fails to deliver simple information that could easily be obtained
and for which there is no good reason, in my view, for not supplying:
Ian Pearson [holding answer 4 November
2008]: Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with
their counterparts in other countries and with a wide variety
of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of
the process of policy development and delivery. As was the cause
with previous Administrations, it is not the Government's practice
to provide details of all such meetings.
November 2008
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