Badenoch’s department wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over potential tax break

A Labour spokesperson said ‘it comes as no surprise that Kemi Badenoch would lobby for tax changes for the super-rich’. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Kemi Badenoch instructed her department to write to the Treasury about a potential tax break after an intervention from Dyson, documents have revealed.

In the minutes of a meeting during her time as business secretary last June, seen by the Guardian, it said Ian Robertson, a board member at the vacuum cleaner and air-filter maker, lobbied Badenoch on the patent box tax benefit that had “worked very successfully but now that corporation tax has risen but the patent box has not losing [sic] its effectiveness”.