Meeting with the Prince of Wales

16 June 2022

Dear

ATISN 16334

Thank you for your request which I received on 18 May 2022. You asked for information as shown at Annex 1.

I can confirm that there is no information held by the Welsh Government.

If you are dissatisfied with the Welsh Government’s handling of your request, you can ask for an internal review within 40 working days of the date of this response. Requests for an internal review should be addressed to the Welsh Government’s Freedom of Information Officer at:

Information Rights Unit 
Welsh Government
Cathays Park 
Cardiff 
CF10 3NQ 
or e-mail: Freedom.ofinformation@gov.wales

Please remember to quote the ATISN reference number above.   

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: 

Information Commissioner’s Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: www.ico.org.uk    

However, please note that the Commissioner will not normally investigate a complaint until it has been through our own internal review process.

Yours sincerely

Annex 1

Please note that the reference to the Prince of Wales in the questions below should include the Prince himself (irrespective of which of his official titles he used). It should also include anyone able to compose correspondence and or to communicate on his behalf. These people will include his Principal Private Secretary and or his Assistant Private Secretary and or any other private secretaries and or his Press Secretary. Please note that I am only interested in the correspondence and communications of these other individuals when it is clear that they are acting on behalf of and or representing the views of the Prince of Wales.

Please note that the reference to the Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS in the questions below should include the First Minister himself, Rose Stewart his Senior Private Secretary, and anyone else in his private office able to compose correspondence and communications on his behalf.

Please provide the copies of any actual correspondence and communication rather than just excerpts from that correspondence and communication. I would like to receive the correspondence and communication together with any original letter heads, other original design features and the signatures. If you feel the need to redact material, can you redact the material where that material appears in the original correspondence and communication. Can you redact it in a way so I will be able to tell how many words and or sentences and or paragraphs have been redacted. That way I will be able to judge the location and extent of any redaction.

Please note that the reference to written correspondence and communications in the questions below should include all traditional forms of correspondence such as letters, faxes and memos, all emails irrespective of whether they were sent and or received through private and official accounts, all telephone text messages, all G-mail messages and all messages sent through encrypted messaging services including but not limited to WhatsApp.

Please redact the names and personal details of any members of the public and junior Welsh Government employees from the correspondence and communication.

1. Between 27 March 2019 and 27 August 2019 did the Prince of Wales respond to the letter sent by Rose Stewart on 26 March 2019. If the answer is yes can you please provide a copy of this correspondence and communication.

2. On any other occasion between 27 March 2019 and 27 August 2019 did the Prince write to and or communicate with the Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS about any of the issues and or the ideas and or the projects which were discussed and or raised at their meeting together on 22 February 2019. If the answer is yes, can you please a copy of this correspondence and communication.

3. Between 27 March 2019 and 27 August 2029 did the Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS write to and or communicate with the Prince of Wales about any of the issues and or the ideas and or the projects which were discussed and or raised at their meeting together on 22 February 2019. If the answer is yes, can you please provide a copy of this correspondence and communication.

4. Has any information relevant to questions one to three been destroyed. If the answer is yes, can you, please provide the following details. In the case of each piece of correspondence and communication which has been destroyed can you state when it was destroyed and why. In the case of each piece of correspondence and communication which has been destroyed can you please identify the authors and recipients of the correspondence and communication. In the case of each piece of correspondence and communication which has been destroyed can you please provide a brief outline of its contents. If any destroyed documentation continues to be held in another form, can you, please provide copies of that correspondence and communication.