DE&S Policy Secretariat
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MOD Abbey Wood
Bristol BS34 8JH
[email address]
Our Reference:
Fred Dawson
124643-003
request-44707-07f51a16 @whatdotheyknow.com
Date:
15 September 2010
Dear Mr Dawson,
Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your enquiry of 15 August 2010 asking for copy of the Safety Improvement
Notice the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR) issued on 22 April 2010 relating to
the failure to remove hull test blanks on HMS TIRELESS and HMS TURBULENT. This is
considered to be a request for information in accordance with the Freedom of Information
(FOI) Act 2000.
I can confirm that we hold the information you requested; a copy of the Safety
Improvement Notice is therefore enclosed. A small amount of information is being
withheld under absolute exemption s.40 (Personal Information) of the FOI Act, so the
document has been redacted to reflect this.
You may be interested to know that DNSR has lifted the Safety Improvement Notice, and
has accepted that the addressees have responded appropriately in terms of process
revision to address its specific requirements.
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-
commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other
reuse, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright
holder. Most documents supplied by the Ministry of Defence will have been produced by
government officials and will be Crown Copyright. You can find details on the
arrangements for re-using Crown Copyright from the Office of Public Sector Information at:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/index.htm.
Information you receive which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues to be protected
by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. You
must ensure that you gain their permission before reproducing any third party (non Crown
Copyright) information.
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, 6th 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.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of
Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not investigate your
case until the MOD internal review process has been completed. Further details of the
role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's
website, http://www.ico.gov.uk.
Yours sincerely,
DE&S Policy Secretariat
