Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 10 June 2004.
Mr Kevin Hughes
Labour, Doncaster North
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
(1) if she will list the meetings that she has held with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to discuss the large Combustion Plant Directive;
(2) if she will list the meetings which have taken place between her (a) Ministers and (b) officials and (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to discuss the large Combustion Plant Directive;.
Stephen Timms
Minister of State (e-Commerce & Competitiveness)
There have been a number of discussions about this Directive between Ministers and officials in the DTI and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Further information about such meetings is being withheld under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information on the grounds that it would harm the frankness and candour of internal deliberation and of confidential communications between departments.
Yes3 people think so
No2 people think not
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