Imperial Service Medal
Dear Ministry of Defence,
Please confirm how many Imperial Service Medals have been awarded in the past five financial years, split out into TLBs (Army, Navy, RAF, DIO, DE&S etc).
Wikipedia states the ISM is available to "selected civil servants", I would therefore also like details about what criteria (other than “upon retirement”) is broadly used for eligibility in awarding them.
Yours faithfully,
Magnus
Dear Mr Ponsonby-Talbot,
Your request has been logged under our reference FOI2019/04999 and the
target date for response is 24 May 2019.
Yours sincerely,
DBS Secretariat
Dear Mr Ponsonby-Talbot,
Please find attached our response to your recent enquiry.
Regards
DBS Secretariat
Dear [email address] on behalf of Defence Business Services Secretariat,
Thank you for your response.
However I do not accept your position. Surely, the MOD would have recorded information about how many people have been awarded the Imperial Service Medal even if, as you say you do not hold the policy, which I do accept.
I should be grateful if you could review this response.
Yours sincerely,
Magnus Ponsonby-Talbot
Dear Mr Ponsonby-Talbot,
Your request has been logged under our reference FOI2019/08853 and the
target date for response is 27 August 2019.
Yours sincerely,
DBS Secretariat
Dear Mr Ponsonby-Talbot,
Please disregard the previous correspondence and take this email as
confirmation that an internal review will be conducted of your request for
information, our reference FOI2019/04999.
The Department's target for completing internal reviews is 20 working days
from date of receipt and we therefore aim to complete the review and
respond to you by 27 August 2019. While we are working hard to achieve
this, in the interests of providing you with a realistic indication of
when you should expect a response, we should advise that the majority are
currently taking between 20 and 40 working days to complete.
The review will involve a full, independent reconsideration of the
handling of the case as well as the final decision.
Yours sincerely,
MOD Information Rights Compliance Team
Dear Mr Ponsonby-Talbot,
Please find attached a response to your recent request for internal
review.
Yours sincerely,
MOD Information Rights Compliance Team
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