Dear Mr Jackson

RE: Freedom of Information

I refer to your communication received in this department on 10 September 2009 concerning the above-mentioned matter. Please consider this letter as an acknowledgement that we have received your communication.

We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and/or Environmental Information.

The Act requires that we respond to your query within 20 working days of receipt. During this period we are going to confirm whether we hold the information you require and if we are able to pass this information on to you.

We have a duty to disclose all information unless an exemption applies. There are seven absolute and sixteen qualified exemptions.

Should we decide that an exemption and/or the public interest test applies to the information you have requested, we will inform you of this within the 20 days and provide you with particulars of the relevant exception and/or our reasons for applying the public interest test and explain why we have drawn this conclusion.

We will advise you of any cost implications, depending on the nature of the request and the time taken to locate and retrieve the information.

If you have not received a response within 20 working days from the date of receipt of your request, please do not hesitate to contact the relevant team using the contact details in the top right hand corner of this letter or alternatively email [email address].

Should you need to contact the department about this matter please quote the above reference number.

Yours sincerely

On Behalf of

Licensing Section

ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT