FOI release

Communications between National Highways and government of Kenya, regarding Stonehenge scheme

This request was refused in part, so we didn't provide some of the information the requester asked for. This may include information where we can neither confirm nor deny that we hold it.

Case reference EIR2024/00851

Received 20 August 2024

Published 10 September 2024

Last amended 10 October 2024

Request

According to this press release by the Stonehenge Alliance, the UK government has somehow persuaded the Kenyan Government to intervene to prevent the placing of Europe's foremost prehistoric site on the endangered list. The text of the Kenyan amendment cannot plausibly have been its own.

Please provide a list of all correspondence between the UK government or National Highways and any office of the Kenyan government, relating to this amendment?

Please state whether National Highways or any other part of the Department of Transport lobbied any office of the Kenyan government to put forward such an amendment.

Please state whether any writing of the Kenyan amendment was provided by or suggested by any official within the Department of Transport, National Highways or any other department of the UK government.

Please state the nature and terms of any agreement with any office of the Kenyan government related to this matter.

Response

Information provided

 

Please state whether National Highways .. lobbied any office of the Kenyan government to put forward such an amendment.

 

National Highways did not lobby any office of the Kenyan Government.

 

Please state whether any writing of the Kenyan amendment was provided by or suggested by any official within .. National Highways ..

 

National Highways had no involvement in the writing of the Kenyan amendment.

 

 

 

Information not held

 

Please provide a list of all correspondence between the UK government or National Highways and any office of the Kenyan government, relating to this amendment?

 

Please state whether .. any other part of the Department of Transport lobbied any office of the Kenyan government to put forward such an amendment.

 

Please state whether any writing of the Kenyan amendment was provided by or suggested by any official within the Department of Transport, .. or any other department of the UK government.

 

Please state the nature and terms of any agreement with any office of the Kenyan government related to this matter.

 

I can confirm that National Highways does not hold this information, and as such this part of your request has been refused under Regulation 12(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 as information not held.

 

 

Advice and Assistance 

 

In relation to question 1 there is no correspondence between National Highways and any office of the Kenyan Government.

 

The information you have requested in questions 2 and 3 regarding the UK Government and the Department for Transport might be held by them. If you have not done so already you may wish to contact them. Details of how to do this is available on their websites:

 

Accessing information from DfT

 

Departments, agencies and public bodies

 

 

In relation to question 4 there are no agreements between National Highways and any office of the Kenyan Government.

Documents

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