Ms Lorraine Christie Date 12 December 2008

[FOI #4094 email]

Dear Ms Christie

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

FOI Reference: 1596

Request: information on the tender for horticultural weedkiller Casoran G/Dichlobenil.

Thank you for your request for information which The City of Edinburgh Council received 12 November 2008. We should have replied to you no later than 10 December 2008. Please accept my apologies that we did not do so.

I can find no information concerning such a tender.

I trust that the above is satisfactory.

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Yours sincerely

Alistair Nairn

Council Tax and Benefits Manager