Direct Communications Unit

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E-mail: [Home Office request email] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

[email address]

HMP Britain

Reference: CR14073

30 April 2010

Dear HMP Britain,

I am writing further to our letters of 22^nd February and 18^th March 2010, about your request for quarterly Taser statistics and information from the Taser Database. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We are now in a position to provide a full reply to your request.

I am able to disclose the information which is set out in the enclosed document.

In keeping with the Freedom of Information Act, we assume that all information can be released to the public unless it is exempt. In line with normal practice we are therefore releasing the information which you requested via the Home Office website.

I hope that this information meets your requirements. I would like to assure you that we have provided you with all relevant information that the Home Office holds.

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 CR14073. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.

Core Home Office and IPS cases:

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 staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If 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,

Rob Coleman OBE BEng

Director

Home Office Scientific Development Branch