New age of transparency? “The information that has been supplied to you continutes to be protected by the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1998.”
Here’s the information in full:
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Typical crap in response to an FOI request that causes embarasment.
Can I ask a question for you?
If I submit an FOI request for the times you clock in to parliament (and clock out if available) would you
1. Expect to be asked for your permission for its release?
2. Object?
Nick
The local authority I served on in the ’80s sometimes took a similar line re information considered confidential. Sometimes they were right, sometimes not.
In this case the information re the pitifully short list of English wines in stock is insufficient to ascertain wether any of the following from Breaky Bottom Vineyard is held:
“Peter also produces a delicious Cassis, made entirely from home grown blackcurrants. This delicious liqueur can be drunk on its own, poured on desserts and ice cream, or used traditionally making Kir by adding to still or sparkling wine. Breaky Bottom is once again featured in the new Rick Stein Guide to the Food Heroes of Britain is published in March 2005.”
Most traditional English wines are made from native english plants, and cultivars of plants outside Vitis vinifera.
It is time HM Civil Service concentrated on more native and far cheaper sources for entertaining.
Oh, I checked all the English wineries listed online and only one mentioned producing a non grape wine.
Fortuitous that it was from the no doubt Breaky Bottom Vineyard, and cassis is rather rich. Pity they have to name it in the french fashion.
Surely we are well past the time when we felt a need to ape the French Court?
Thank you for this information I am sure everyone will be really pleased to read it. Just wondered if drinking on the premises is allowed most of the public sector organisations I have worked for dont allow it.
There are only two types of “Commercial Interest” here – the “public authority” (GH) and the “suppliers”.
Unless GH intend at some time to start selling from the cellar, how can it be against their public interest for us (who actually paid for the stuff!) to know what they have got?
Surely, the knowledge that their wine has been “favoured” by GH could only result in others (us again!) wanting to buy some of the stuff from the suppliers and that would only be to their commercial Advantage.
If the suppliers can then sell the stuff at a better price then so be it. if that means that GH looses the discounts then so be it. If that then means that the MP’s etc have to pay more for a bottle then, again, so be it. And please do not tell me that they get it either cheap or free …
Well for me it shows that the FOI produces something. I have come across mnay people who “say” they have asked for info under the FOI act and not had anything useful.
the list seemed very poor selection, far too many French wines, lack of good selection of wines from the commonwealth countries! Her Majesty wouldn’t approve of her servants quaffing on wine from the noisy neighbours…
and what does hospitality mean? no prices?
always here about the unpaid bar tabs etc from Bercow…
lastly do they have any “Chateau PipSqueak Gove” 2010
Calling others pipsqueak and your first page is about a wine list?!
Copyright Designs Act 1998? Those rotten Tories…..
I do not know what the fuss is about. Are you suggesting that the government should not have a wine cellar? I suppose it makes headlines but it comes across as being pathetic. I am not interested and it makes me wonder why we need so many MPs.
ps I thought your behaviour and language in the House yesterday was despicable, bullying and unbecoming. Could you be careful – you are supposed to be a government in waiting and the aggressive language from many of you is most off putting as well as counter productive. It may appeal to a small section of the party but it does not appeal to all.
As you aren’t requesting details of prices paid or identities of suppliers I can’t see how publication of a stock list would prejudice supplier relations. I would surmise that the HOC is trying to conceal a profligate excess that would expose it to public criticism – exactly the sort of thing that FOI requests are supposed to bring out into the light of day. May I request that you appeal this to the Information Commissioner as the request has clearly not been fulfilled, clearly is in the public interest, and grounds for only partial disclosed are clearly unfounded.
Tom – give up. There are *slightly* more importnat FOI requests that you could have made about your own party’s Government.
If this is the best you can do, to try and patronise people by playing class politics and pretending you are ‘one of them’?
What is in YOUR wine cellar, Tom?
How patronising. You have no idea.
Are there not more important FOI requests, Tom? Was the Cellar any less stocked in your own junior ministerial days? Nah. Why are you trying to play the class war when your party has ognored the working class for 16 years? Mandelson: “Where else can they go?”
Cheers. Your party is full of hypocrites. No-one ought to vote for you again.
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