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FOI2025/00054: Project 79327 application form

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Case reference FOI2025/00054

Received 20 January 2025

Published 1 April 2025

Request

Request received: 20 January 2025

Project Reference 79327 was granted funding between September 2020 and June 2021.  The project manager was Duncan White, who at the time was Company Secretary and a director of Climate Solutions Exchange Ltd. 

 

The company, which is located six miles south of Barnard Castle in County Durham, was formed on 20 January 2020 with two founding directors, Andrew Howard and Sir Edward Milbank, Bt.  Mr White was appointed on 17 April 2020 and was terminated as such on 30 April 2021.  Mr Howard was the company's project manager for a further successful grant in 2022.   I'm writing to ask if you hold:

 

1.     the application form that was submitted for the first grant. I believe it would have been sent to you in the four months between May and August 2020. 

 

2.     I would like to know the date when it was submitted and when it was approved.

 

3.     I would also like to know if there were any supporting endorsements provided by third parties working in government departments or agencies or any reference made to such supporters in the application. I have in mind endorsements or support from the Office of the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence, DEFRA, BEIS and the UK Space Agency in particular but not exclusively.

 

Response

Response sent: 26 February 2025

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