Root's bounded public acquisition closed9September2026. Ofcom's June crisis statement3.46-47/footnote29, PDF17, cites an Ofcom/DSIT meeting on4August2025, alongside Full Fact's responsep17, as questions about the interaction of section175 directions and the crisis measures. The statement then identifies its amendment requiring consideration of an issued public statement notice. The dated regulator attribution is established; an agenda, attendee list, minute, submitted briefing or agreed action from that meeting was not obtained.
Five bounded exact-date/actor searches, plus the existing Ofcom FOI-response index searched for DSIT/date/crisis, did not locate the meeting document. An unrelated spectrum document's printing date, broad ministerial meeting lists from a different quarter, and unrelated spending records were not treated as meeting evidence. There is no inference that the meeting was ministerial rather than official-level, involved a named minister, was secret, or was held at Full Fact's request. A dated citation establishes a claimed exchange; it does not identify each participant's position or approval rights.
The FOI index did expose a directly relevant existing response. Ofcom reference02210914, dated19June2026, replies to a request received12June about the protocol's drafting timeline and emergency-enforcement criteria. Original URL: http[local research file] . All95reader lines across four pages were read; crisis-planning-foi.reader.txt retains the official-reader derivative. No original PDF bytes acquired and no new request sent.
In its own answer to1(a)-(c), PDF2, Ofcom confirms an initial internal planning document, says work commenced23October2024 following17October parliamentary and22October Secretary of State correspondence, and says final approval was completed between21May and26May2026. These are agency statements about its records, not the underlying planning document, letters or signed approvals. They establish a precise prior planning/approval trail to seek; they do not disclose the4August2025meeting or who approved the text. The requester-provided Belfast narrative onPDF1 is separately attributed and is not Ofcom's confirmation of every background claim.
Question3 asks for a decision record explaining why the10June2026open letter was selected instead of formal enforcement. Ofcom says it does not hold information within that question's scope, explaining that sending a conducive letter did not exclude other actions and no such either/or decision was made. This is a scoped response, not a claim that no briefing or approval for the letter exists at all. The response directs emergency-enforcement criteria to its published guidance3.8-3.9; that guidance was not reacquired in this lane. Its statement that a separate Grok investigation remained open is historical19June status and is not adopted as current.
Most revealing remaining records: the meeting note/action log or briefing for4August2025; the confirmed initial planning document; the21-26May2026approval material and comparison against the consulted draft. Ofcom and DSIT are indicated holders for the meeting; Ofcom expressly confirms holding the planning record. Public acquisition is finite and closed. Any later information request requires separate outreach authority. The Full Fact passage is acquired in the independent companion lane, including its actual17October2025document date; that later date prevents treating the submission itself as proof it initiated the August meeting.