Naval Service FOI Cell 
Navy Command Headquarters 
MP 1-4 
 Navy Command 
Leach Building 
   
Whale Island 
 
PORTSMOUTH PO2 8BY 
 
 
 
Telephone:  02392 625081 
 
Military:  93832 5081 
 
DII:  FLEET-DCS-INFO-FOI1 
Our Ref: 22-12-2008-071924-005 
E-mail: [email address] 
 
 
 
Via email: [FOI #5055 email]                    22 December 2008          
   
 
Dear Katherine 
 
Request for Information – Acknowledgement 
 
Thank you for your request for information received 22 December 2008.  Your enquiry has 
been considered to be a request for information in accordance with the Freedom of 
Information Act 2000. 
 
This letter is to acknowledge receipt of your request and to inform you that generally, in 
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 a response is to be given within 20 
working days of your application i.e. 23 January 2009 .  However, if your request is 
voluminous or complex it may take some time to process in which case we will advise you 
further. 
 
A copy of your question as received by this office is attached.   
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Request for Information 
 
 Dear Sir or Madam, Are Royal Fleet Auxiliary seafarers Civil Servants and if so why 
are their terms and conditions regarding sick pay, pensions and job movement within 
the Civil Service (ie restricted to Royal Fleet Auxiliary appointments only) different to 
that of what we normally think of as Civil Servants in that RFA seafarers cannot move 
positions within the Civil Service as Civil Servants can? 
 
 

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