Mae hwn yn fersiwn HTML o atodiad i'r cais Rhyddid Gwybodaeth 'Loss of specialist capabilities needed to support the nuclear propulsion programme'.




 
 
Ships and Submarines Team 
DE&S Policy Secretariat 
 
 
#2043 Maple 0 
 
MOD Abbey Wood 
Bristol BS34 8JH 
 
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Mr Fred Dawson 
Our References: 
 
29-08-2012-102657-001
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25-10-2012-090410-001
 
 
Date: 
14 November 2012 
 
 
 
 
Dear Mr Dawson, 
 
Request for Information under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000  
 
I am writing in response to your email of 5 November 2012, in which you say: 
 
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews. 
 
I am writing to request an internal review of Ministry of Defence's handling of my FOI 
request 'Loss of specialist capabilities needed to support the nuclear propulsion 
programme'. 
 
As you will see from my email dated 23 October I have reason to believe that the 
information requested does exist and it is on this basis I am requesting an internal 
review 
 
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at 
this address: 
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/loss_of_specialist_capabilities
 
I should first like to apologise for not writing to you sooner to explain the action we were 
taking as a result of your email of 23 October. 
 
I can confirm that the email above has been passed to the MOD’s FOI Internal Review 
team but, following discussions with them, it is proposed not to carry out an Internal 
Review at this stage.  This is because your email of 23 October was recorded as a new 
request shortly after it was received, on the basis that it provided specific clarification, 
which will assist us in locating the information you are seeking.  As you are aware, no 
information was found by the searches we carried out based on your initial request, but the 
clarification you provided has allowed us to carry out a more focused search.   
 
As a result, we are currently processing your clarified request, with the intention of 
providing you with a response no later than 20 November.  The clarified request has been 
 


assigned reference 25-10-2012-090410-001 as the previous request was formally closed 
on our systems. 
 
If, after you have received a substantive response, you wish us to proceed with an Internal 
Review, that option will remain open to you.  At this stage, however, it is considered 
appropriate to continue with the work that has already started on your clarified request, 
rather than simply reviewing the handling of your original request. 
 
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, 2nd Floor, 
MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx). 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, 
 
The Ships and Submarines Team