15 October 2008

Mr S Hardwicke Carruthers

Via email ([FOI #3162 email])

Our ref: CS/08/0072/HJP

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Dear Mr Hardwicke Carruthers

Request for information

In your email of 8 October, following my reply to your original request, you said that I had identified that the “Secretary of State appears not to have accepted the request” of Tony Redmond made in his letter of 24 April. That is not the case. The Department did not reply in writing to Mr Redmond, but Paul Rowsell, to whom the letter was written, did give Mr Redmond verbal confirmation that the position outlined in his letter was correct.

The Commission is due to conduct another Triennial Review this year.

Yours sincerely

Hilary Pook (Ms)

Communications and Records Manager

LGO 01 (03/08)