FOI release

FOI2025/00013S Smoking shelters (Nigeria)

Published 16 April 2025

0.1 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST REF: FOI2025/00013S聽

Thank you for your email of 23 March 2025 asking for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. You asked:聽

Please share details of where UK taxpayer money was spent on creating structures and facilities for smokers overseas.聽 Please include where structures and facilities were adapted for their purpose and any furnishing that was provided in these facilities.聽

Please limit details for UK properties in the following country:聽

鈼� Nigeria聽

Please share details for the following financial years:听听

鈼� 2023/24聽

鈼� so far of 2024/25聽

Please included all properties both offices and residential and in all locations where the UK has properties in each country.聽

Where more than 拢100 of UK taxpayer money was spent across the three years stated please include a breakdown of what funds were spent on and correspondence relating to the decision making process for the spend. Please include the seniority of individuals in the decision and approval processes.聽

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the specific information you requested is not held by this Department.聽

FCDO Services is a trading fund of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The FCDO is our primary customer and we support its overseas diplomatic platform by providing technical and logistical services as part of our Global Property Support Service and Global Maintenance Programme. A search of our records has confirmed that we have not completed or paid for work related to smoking areas across any of the FCDO sites in Nigeria.听听聽

Once an FOI request is answered, it is considered to be in the public domain.聽 To promote transparency, FCDO Services may now publish the response on 188体育 in the FOI releases section.聽 All personal information in the letter will be removed before publishing.听听

If you would like to request a review of our decision, you should write to the Data Protection Officer (DPO), Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) Team, FCDO Services, Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes, England, MK19 7BH (e-mail: [email protected]).聽 Please note you have 40 working days to do so from the date of this letter. Please quote the reference number above in any future communications.聽

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.聽 Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the FCDO. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, or online at: 听听

Yours sincerely,聽

FOI Officer聽

Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) Team聽

FCDO Services