FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI) REQUEST

Your correspondence dated 07 July 2010 has been considered to be a request for information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You requested the following information:

Q1. Can you please provide information on the starting intake numbers at Welbeck College/DSFC between 2003 to current? Could you please break this down for Army, Navy, Air force, other.

Q2. Can you please provide information on how many students graduated from Welbeck College/DSFC between 2003 to current? Could you please break this down for Army, Navy, Air force, other.

Q3. Can you please provide information on the starting intake numbers for the DTUS scheme between 2003 to current? Could you please break this down for Army, Navy, Air force, other. Could you please break this down to how many were direct entrants or from Welbeck College/DSFC.

Q4. Can you please provide information on how many students graduated from the DTUS scheme between 2003 to current? Could you please break this down for Army, Navy, Air force, other. Could you please break this down to how many were direct entrants or from Welbeck.

Q5. Can you please provide information on how many students between 2003 to current that graduated from the DTUS scheme passed their Officer training courses? Could you please break this down for Army, Navy, Air force, other. Could you please break this down to how many were direct entrants or from Welbeck.

Please find attached a table answering the questions above broken down as requested.

If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance. If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the Head of Corporate Information, 2^nd Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail [email address]). Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end.

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Yours sincerely,

AGannon

A A GANNON

Warrant Officer Class 2

for Director General

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