Dear Mr Manderson,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been passed to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will be in touch with you should your request need clarification. 

We received your request on 14 January 2010 and will aim to respond within 20 working days. 

Yours Sincerely

Scott Macdonald

Information Management Group 
Information Rights Team



-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Manderson [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx] 
Sent: 14 January 2010 12:25
To: DP-FOI.IMG (Restricted)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Purchasing

     Dear Sir/Madam,
     
     What is the average cost of the purchase of one bottle of wine
     between June 2008 and May 2009? This can be calculated by a simple
     division of the total cost of wine divided by the number of
     bottles. Further to this, could you tell me what percentage of
     bottles of wine were white and what percentage were red.
     
     I hold the figures for June 2007 to May 2008 and am interested to
     see if the costs have come down.
     
     Could you further tell me what percentage of the bottles of wine
     (not the cost of the wine) came from North America, Chile and
     Europe?
     
     Yours sincerely,
     Alastair Manderson
     
     PS. If the figures above can only be obtained at too high a cost -
     please provide me with more recent figures. Thank you for your
     continued help, you are a credit to this great nation.
     
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