Army Secretariat
Army Headquarters
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United Kingdom
Army/Sec/FOI07937/79250/13/04
E-mail:
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Website: www.army.mod.uk
Mr Robert Adam
request-425002-
16 August 2017
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Mr Adam,
Thank you for your email of 12 August in which you requested the following information:
“Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the average number of years of
service in between officers receiving their commission and officers reaching the following
ranks.
1. Captain
2. Major
3. Lieutenant Colonel
4. Colonel
For each of the ranks above, could you also state the number of personnel who are currently
at that rank”.
I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.
In order to answer your request, please could you confirm that you are asking for the above
information only for the Army?
Under Section 16 (Advice & Assistance), it may be useful for you to know that Royal Marines
officer ranks are the same as Army officer ranks.
Once you have clarified your request, I will be pleased to consider it again.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you have any queries regarding the content of this letter, please contact this office in the first
instance.
If you wish to complain about the handling of your request, or the content of this response, you can
request an independent internal review by contacting the Information Rights Compliance team,
Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail
xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx). Please
note that any request for an internal review should be made within 40 working days of the date of
this response.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may raise your complaint directly to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Please note that the Information Commissioner will not normally investigate your case until the
MOD internal review process has been completed. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be
found on the Commissioner's website at
https://ico.org.uk/. Yours sincerely,
Pol & Discl 4
Army Secretariat