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FOI2025/00934: Correspondence between JG and Gambling Reform

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Case reference FOI2025/00934

Received 16 October 2025

Published 20 February 2026

Request

Request received: 16 October 2025

Please can you supply copies of all notes, correspondence and memoranda relating to a meeting held in July 2025 between Jaideep Gupte and gambling reform campaigners and academics to discuss the UKRI's Research Programme on Gambling?

 

Clarification request: 28 October 2025

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received 16 October in which you requested copies of notes, correspondence and memoranda relating to a meeting held in August 2025 between Jaideep Gupte, gambling reform campaigners and academics to discuss the UKRI's Research Programme on Gambling.

 

We can confirm that no information is held regarding a meeting in August. However, we do hold a record for a meeting that took place in July. Could you kindly confirm whether this is the meeting you are referring to in your request?

 

Clarification received: 28 October 2025

 

Yes - that is indeed the meeting I was referencing.

Response

Response sent: 22 December 2025

Full details of this response are provided in the attached documents

Documents

• FOI2025_00934 - Annex 1_Redacted.pdf (1.6 MB)
• FOI_Response_Letter - FOI2025_00934_Redacted.pdf (292.4 KB)

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