From: Desk 8, Zone H, Level 4, Operations
Directorate
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Horse Guards Avenue
Whitehall
London
SW1A 2HB
Mr L Craig-Best
Your Reference: -
9 Arkwright Road
Hampstead
Our reference: Ops Dir/…/FOI/20090213
LONDON
NW3 6AB
Date: 13 February 2009
Dear Mr Craig-Best,
Thank you for your correspondence of the 20th January 2009 requesting full details of the
decision by the Parliamentary Ombudsman relating to counter-narcotics assistance to
Colombia, and specifically the section supporting the approach of not revealing the
financial value of UK counter-narcotics assistance to Colombia. Your request has been
treated as a Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
With regard to your request for the full details of the decision of the Parliamentary
Ombudsman, this is information that is not held by this Department and is reasonably
accessible within the public domain. The full text of the decision is available online at
http://www.ombudsman.org.uk/improving_services/selected_cases/AOI/aoi0503-1/a3-
05.html
If you are unhappy 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 Director of Information Exploitation, 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 unhappy 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 the
case until the 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.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Yours Sincerely,
