UK Mission to the EU
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH
Website:
https://www.gov.uk
Mathias Schindler
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
8th July 2020
Dear Mathias Schindler
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 REQUEST REF: FOI2020/12182
Thank you for your email of 17th June asking for information under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) 2000. You asked:
Palantir Technologies, Inc. is a private company supplying products and services.
I am asking for any information related to palantir and its products and services, including
a) meeting records (drafts, memos, invitations, appointments, cancellations) involving
Palantir officials and people representing Palantir and their interests
b) correspondence (including within the [Authority name] and with the European institutions
concerning Palantir technologies and / or its products and services or the regulatory
environment of the EU that affects their products and services. This may include policy
papers, consultation input, memoranda or any other form of information.
c) invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement documents, offers
etc. concerning products and services using Palantir Technologies.
Please do not transfer this request to another Autority, this is a request specifically for you.
Do not exclude short-lived documents or documents considered to be unimportant under
archiving rules.
Please ensure that information that is considered to be excempt for access for this request is
not automatically deleted within to make sure that subsequent confirmatory applications and
legal appeals as well as Ombudsman office inquiries can still access and assess them.
I am writing to confirm that we have now completed the search for the information which you
requested.
I can confirm that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) does not hold information
relevant to your request.
Once an FOI request is answered, it is considered to be in the public domain. To promote
transparency, we may now publish the response and any material release
d on gov.uk in the
FOI releases section. All personal information in the letter will be removed before
publishing.
If you would like a review of our decision, or if you wish to make a complaint, please write to
the Central FOI Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Room WH2.177, King Charles
Street, London, SW1A 2AH. E-mail:
xxxxxxx.xxxx@xxx.xxx.xx. You have 40 working days
to do so from the date of this letter.
You can apply directly to the Information Commissioner. However, the Information
Commissioner will not normally make a decision unless you have first exhausted the
complaints procedure provided by the FCO. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely,
UK Mission to the EU
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ur Personal Information Charter