FOI_25-256 Correspondence with listed companies

Date of response: 24 September 2025

We have now considered your request of 28 August 2025 for the following information:

Please provide copies of any correspondence (emails, letters, notes of meetings, with any attachments) sent to or from:

a) your campus security team (or equivalent)

b) your careers and employability service (or equivalent)

and representatives of each of the below listed organisations, between 1 October 2023 and the date of this request. The list of organisations is as follows:

(i) ADS Group (@adsgroup.org.uk)

(ii) Airbus (@airbus.com)

(iii) Babcock (@babcockinternational.com)

(iv) BAE Systems (@baesystems.com)

(v) Boeing (@boeing.com)

(vi) Caterpillar (@cat.com)

(vii) Cobham Limited (@cobham.com)

(viii) Elbit Systems (@elbitsystems.com)

(ix) General Dynamics (@gd-ms.uk / @gdlsuk.com)

(x) GE Aerospace (@geaerospace.com)

(xi) GKN PLC (@gkn.com)

(xii) Leonardo (@leonardo.com / @uk.leonardo.com )

(xiii) Lockheed Martin (@global.lmco.com / @lockheedmartin.com)

(xiv) MBDA (@mbda-systems.com)

(xv) Meggitt (@meggitt.com)

(xvi) Qinetiq (@qinetiq.com)

(xvii) Royal Air Force (@mod.gov.uk)

(xviii) Raytheon / Raytheon UK (@raytheon.co.uk)

(xix) Rolls Royce (@rolls-royce.com)

(xx) Thales (@uk.thalesgroup.com)

To assist searches, this may be limited to correspondence to/from the corporate email domains of the above organisations. For your ease, I’ve provided (to the best of my knowledge) the email domain for each organisation in brackets above.

Our response:

Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_25-256 Appendix A.

Please note we have provided information held by our Careers Service, which has an automated email system, therefore some of the emails provided are template emails produced and sent during the requested period to representatives of some of the organisations listed. We have noted the name of the organisation for each email at the top of the document for clarity.

On this occasion it is not possible to provide all of the requested information. In line with your rights under section 1(1)(a) of the Act to be informed whether information is held, we confirm that the University does not hold any recorded information for emails to or from UEA campus security team from the listed organisations during the requested period. We hold no emails, correspondence, letters or notes of meetings sent to or from our Security team from any of those organisations or their representatives.

We also confirm we do not hold any recorded information for any emails received from the listed organisations or any representatives to those noted University departments during the requested period.

QUESTION 2

Please provide copies of any correspondence (emails, letters, notes, with attachments) sent to or from:

a) your campus security team (or equivalent)

b) the Vice-Chancellor/Principal

c) your Prevent lead (or equivalent)

between 1 June 2025 and the date of this request, which contain any of the following phrases:

(i) “Palestine Action”

(ii) “Proscribe”

(iii) “Proscribed”

(iii) “Proscription”

Our response:

Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_25-256 Appendix B.

On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Act contains a number of exemptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exemption(s) to part of your request.

In line with s.40(2) of the Act we have removed certain personal data from FOI_25-256 Appendix A and FOI_25-256 Appendix B.

We believe that some of the requested information, specifically names, job titles and pronouns, constitutes the personal data of University of East Anglia staff and individuals external to the University, as defined by Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We believe that disclosure of the personal information relating to these individuals would be contrary to the requirements of Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR; namely that information must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. These individuals would have no expectation that this information would be made publicly available, and we have not identified a lawful basis that would allow or require us to disclose this information.

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