MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Main Building, Whitehall,
London, SW1A 2HB
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Mr Ben Laurie
Your Reference:
REQUEST-11208-
[email address]
Our Reference:
05052009-174834-008
Date: September 2009
Dear Mr Laurie,
Further to our response to your Freedom of Information request relating to WikiLeaks on
19 June 2009, additional information has been received from RAF Digby. Please see the
reports attached.
May I explain, once a Freedom of Information request is received, it is recorded and then
depending on the nature of the question it is sent out to the various departments that
may hold information pertinent to the question. In this case the question was sent to the
Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, as well as within Main Building. The three
Services then proceeded to forward it to various sections to see if any information was
held.
Although it was thought that all these areas had submitted Nil responses, a late response
was received from RAF Digby.
I can only apologise that this information was not identified within the appropriate
timescale.
Some information has been removed in accordance with Section 40 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. This comprises personal information. Section 40 is an absolute
exemption and it is not therefore necessary to conduct a public interest test.
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-
commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other
reuse, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright
holder. Most documents supplied by the Ministry of Defence will have been produced by
government officials and will be Crown Copyright. You can find details on the
arrangements for re-using Crown Copyright from the Office of Public Sector Information
at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/index.htm.
Information you receive which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues to be
protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information
originated. You must ensure that you gain their permission before reproducing any third
party (non Crown Copyright) information
In keeping with the spirit and effect of the Freedom of Information Act, all information is
assumed to be releasable to the public unless exempt. The MOD therefore will be
simultaneously posting the information you requested, together with any related
information that will provide a key to its wider context, in our online FOI Disclosure Log at
http://www.foi.mod.uk.
If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of
the handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance. If informal
resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an
independent internal review by contacting the Head of Corporate Information, 6th Floor,
MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail [email address]). Please note
that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date
on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of
Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not investigate your
case until the MOD internal review process has been completed. Further details of the
role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's
website, http://www.ico.gov.uk.
