Air Command Secretariat
Spitfire Block
Headquarters Air Command
Royal Air Force
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP14 4UE
Our Ref: FOI2019/11626
Mr James Jones
Via whatdotheyknow
11 November 2019
Dear Mr Jones
Thank you for your email of 12 October 2019 requesting the following information:
“Is it possible to have copies of the preceding [Hawk T1 ODH] safety statements, cira
2015/16”
I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
A search for the information has now been completed within the Ministry of Defence, and I
can confirm that all of the information in scope of your request is held.
Attached are the respective ODH safety statements made during 2015 and 2016. For 22
Group, in those years the ODH did not produce a Hawk T1 specific Safety Statement.
Consequently, I have provided an extract of the Group wide safety statement which covers
all 22 Group Air and Ground activity. The extract shows those areas of the Statement
which are within scope of your request. The documents contain a small number of
redactions of personal information withheld under Section 40(1). This absolute exemption
and does not require a Public Interest Test.
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first instance
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Yours sincerely
[Original Signed]
Secretariat 3a
Air Command