Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
Biodiversity Programme 
Zone 1/11 
Temple Quay House 
2 The Square 
Bristol BS1 6EB  
 
Telephone 08459 33 55 77 
Website www.defra.gov.uk 
 
 
 
Mr B Addison 
 
Via email – [email address] 
 
Date 26 August 2008
 
 
Dear Mr Addison 
 
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST: EMAILS REGARDING DEREK 
CANNING AND MARK ROBB 
 
Thank you for your request for emails regarding Derek Canning and Mark Robb which we 
received on 18 August.  
 
Following careful consideration, we have decided not to disclose this information.  The 
information you have requested is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in section 
40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which relates to personal data relating to 
third parties.  The information you have requested consists of the personal data of third 
parties and disclosure of this information would breach the first data protection principle in 
Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998.  Accordingly, the information is exempt from 
disclosure under section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act. 
 
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me.  I also attach an annex giving 
contact details should you be unhappy with the service you have received. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
Christine Rumble 
 
Direct Line   0117 372 6170  
Fax 
 
0117 372 8688 
Email  
[email address] 
 
 
 
 

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Annex A 
 
Complaints 
 
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request you may 
make a complaint or appeal against our decision within 40 working days of the date of this 
letter. Please write to Clive Porro, Head of Defra’s Information Rights Team at Area1E, 3-8 
Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HH, who will arrange for an internal review of your case.  
Details of Defra’s complaints procedure can be found at: 
www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/opengov/complain/index.htm.   
 
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply 
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please note that generally the 
Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have first exhausted 
Defra’s own complaints procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: 
 
Information Commissioner’s Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 
 
 
 

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