This request concerned the attendance of the government's spin doctors at two key meetings on the dossier. Both were meetings of the dossier drafting group.

The first, on the afternoon of 9 September 2002, was the meeting at which an intelligence paper citing the notorious 45 minutes claim was seen discussed, after which the claim appeared in the dossier. At the second on 17 September 2002, the Defence Intelligence Staff objected - on grounds that it was single-sourced and insufficiently reliable - to the presentation of the claim as a "judgement". It was decided at the meeting that the claim should maintain that status.

Specifically, the request asked:

1. Which representatives of the No. 10 and Foreign Office (to include the CIC) press offices attended the meetings of the dossier drafting group on 9 and 17 September 2002, as described by (Sir) John Scarlett in his Hutton Inquiry evidence? (Please state which individuals attended which meeting)
2. What contribution(s) did those individuals make to the discussions at those meetings?
3. Please provide any minutes or notes of those meetings, redacting where necessary the identities of participants other than those individuals described above.

The Cabinet Office has stated that it does not hold (any of) this information