US COVID patent correspondence

1 March 2022

Dear

ATISN 16109 - US COVID Patents Correspondence

Thank you for your requests to the Welsh Government for information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) received on 23 February 2022 relating to the US Patent Numbers.  I have interpreted your requests as follows:

All correspondence, emails and communications in relation to US Patent Numbers: 7279327, 7220852, 7776521, during the time period’s, or relevant years of service in role 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, with:

• Mark Drakeford 
• Simon Hart 
• Eluned Morgan 

Response

Welsh Government does not hold the information you are requesting.

Simon Hart is a Member of Parliament (MP) and Welsh Government does not hold his correspondence or communications in relation to the US Patent numbers.  In accordance with Section 16 (Advise and Assist), you may wish to contact his office for the information you are seeking, contact details below.

Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
Gwydyr House
Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NP
United Kingdom

Email: walesofficefoi@ukgovwales.gov.uk

Next Steps

The request you sent me contains personal information about you - for example, your name and address. The Welsh Government will be the data processor for this information and, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, it will be processed in order to fulfil our public task and meet our legal obligations under the Act to provide you with a response.

We will only use this personal information to deal with your request and any matters which arise as a result of it. We will keep your personal information and all other information relating to your request for three years from the date on which your request is finally closed.  Your personal information will then be disposed of securely.

Under data protection legislation, you have the right:  

•           to be informed of the personal data we hold about you and to access it

•           to require us to rectify inaccuracies in that data

•           to (in certain circumstances) object to or restrict processing

•           for (in certain circumstances) your data to be ‘erased’

•           to (in certain circumstances) data portability

•           to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is our independent regulator for data protection

For further information about the information which the Welsh Government holds and its use, or if you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, please see contact details below:

Data Protection Officer
Welsh Government
Cathays Park    
CARDIFF
CF10 3NQ
Email:    DataProtectionOfficer@gov.wales 

If you are dissatisfied with the Welsh Government’s handling of your request, you can ask for an internal review within 40 working days of the date of this response. Requests for an internal review should be addressed to the Welsh Government’s Freedom of Information Officer at:

Information Rights Unit, 
Welsh Government, 
Cathays Park, 
Cardiff, 
CF10 3NQ 

or Email: Freedom.ofinformation@gov.wales 

Please remember to quote the ATISN reference number above.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office, 
Wycliffe House, 
Water Lane, 
Wilmslow, 
Cheshire, 
SK9 5AF. 

However, please note that the Commissioner will not normally investigate a complaint until it has been through our own internal review process

Yours sincerely