Numbers of military/civilian personnel by grade at DE&S Abbey Wood

John Howarth made this Freedom of Information request to Ministry of Defence

The request was successful.

From: John Howarth

4 July 2010

Dear Ministry of Defence,
Can you please let me have the numbers of military and civilian
personnel employed at Abbey Wood in DE&S by grade and equivalent
rank between Grade E and 1 star level and those above 1 star level
as at the latest times these figures are available.

Yours faithfully,

John Howarth

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From: John Howarth

5 August 2010

Dear Ministry of Defence,
You have not responded to my FOI request which by law should have
been received by 3 August. I requested the information in order to
submit an opinion to the MOD with respect to SDR. Please provide
the information.

Yours faithfully,

John Howarth

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From: John Howarth

2 September 2010

Dear Ministry of Defence,
The response to my FOI request is long overdue with no timetable as
to when you will respond. Before I go to the FOI Commissioner I
would like you to carry out an internal review as to the reason of
the non response and to report back the results.

Yours faithfully,

John Howarth

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From: DES SEC-Par1 (Dudman, Tony Mr)
Ministry of Defence

20 October 2010

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Dear Mr Howarth

I attach a letter in response to your e-mail of 4 July 2010 in which you
asked for the numbers of military and civilian personnel employed at Abbey
Wood in DE&S, by grade and equivalent rank. This was considered to be a
request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

A full breakdown of staff as at 31 August 2010 is provided. I apologise
for the delay in response to your e-mail but I hope that this full
breakdown meets you requirements.

If you are not satisfied 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,
[1]http://www.ico.gov.uk.

Kind regards

Tony Dudman

DES Sec-Par1

( MIL 9352 34371

( STD 0117 91 34371

* [email address]

Abbey Wood Maple 0A #2043

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From: John Howarth

20 October 2010

Dear DES SEC-Par1 (Dudman, Tony Mr),
Thank you for the information you provided, which I accept fully
meets my request. My disappointment however, is that it took 3.5
months to respond and arrived too late to allow me to use the
information to input to the SDSR.
The point I was trying to make was that it is always the civil
servants that get blamed for failure and for their volume and
indeed thousands will now loose their jobs. However, the DE&S is
dominated at the senior level by the military grades. For example
whilst the total ratio of military to civil is only in the low 20%,
at 1 star and above the ratio is 34 to 63 i.e. 54%. The point I was
trying to make was that in procurement and support contracting, the
military should be there to supply support and operational
knowledge not to manage many of our biggest and most catastrophic
programmes.

Regards

John Howarth

Yours sincerely,

John Howarth

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