The Cabinet Office could face contempt of Court charges for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Request by The Mail on Sunday regarding the David Cameron lobbying scam.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has taken the unprecedented step of writing to Alex Chisholm, the Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office, warning that a file will be passed to its legal team unless it responds by Tuesday.
The MoS requested information about communications between Lex Greensill and the Prime Minister in 2012. This was done last May.
The Cabinet Office could face contempt of Court charges for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Request by The Mail on Sunday regarding the David Cameron lobbying scam (stock photo)
The request was prompted by reports that Mr Cameron, who joined Mr Greensill’s finance firm Greensill Capital as a part-time adviser in 2018, had subsequently lobbied Chancellor Rishi Sunak on the company’s behalf.
Mr Cameron failed to secure government support for the now defunct firm, in what was dubbed ‘the lobbying scandal of the decade’.
Although the Cabinet Office acknowledged that it had relevant documents, they failed to divulge them or issue a notice of refusal explaining why.
Yesterday night, an anonymous source indicated that the Cabinet Office planned to respond tomorrow to the FoI request.
The MoS requested information about communications between David Cameron, then Prime Minister, and Lex Greensill (pictured), last May. Lex Greensill was an adviser special to Downing Street.