Nova

Email: [email address]

Reference: FOICR 14535/10

Date: 13 April 2010

Dear Nova

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your e-mail of 8 March in which you ask for certified copies of the birth entries for Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You asked:-

Please would you give me a certified copy of the birth certificates

for the following three people - and if you are unable to do so please would you tell me who is?

Elizabeth II - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (now called Windsor); born

21 April 1926 at 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, England

The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales - Charles Philip Arthur George

(son of the aforementioned Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (now called

Windsor)); born 14 November 1948 at Buckingham Palace

Prince William of Wales - William Arthur Philip Louis (son of the aforementioned Charles Philip Arthur George); born 21 June 1982 at

St Mary's Hospital, London, England

The IPS response is:-

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act exempts the Home Office from having to provide you with this information, because it is already in the public domain. If you have any difficulties in accessing this information at the source which I have indicated, please contact me again. One of the exemptions listed in the Freedom of Information Act is section 21, which covers information accessible to the applicant by other means. This includes circumstances in which a fee is payable. The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 already makes provision for applications to be made for certified copies of register entries.

You can apply to the General Register Office for copies of the entries you seek by visiting the following webpage - http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Further information is available on the Directgov website - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/index.htm.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference FOICR 14535/10.

Information Access Team

Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 4DF

E-mail: [email address]

As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by members of staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely

H Reid

Parliamentary & Correspondence Management Team

Passport Adviceline: 0300 222 0000 (07.00 - 23.00 seven days a week).

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