Mr I Peroll

Email: [FOI #18507 email]

Our reference: FOICR 12887/09

Date: 26 June 2009

Dear Mr Peroll,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your email of 25 September concerning statistics on adoptions, suicides and abortions.

Your request is being handled in accordance with the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We aim to send you a substantive reply to your request within 20 working days of our receiving it on 25 September 2009. Therefore you should receive a substantive response by 23 October 2009.

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Yours faithfully,

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