Secretariat
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
Kingston Road
Sutton Coldfield
Simon Brown
B75 7RL
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
www.gov.uk/DIO
Ref. FOI 2021/01843
Dear Mr Brown,
18 March 2021
Thank you for your email of requesting the following information:
“Please provide copy of the minutes of the meeting between MOD/DIO and HCAF Liaison Group
held on the 9th of December 2020.”
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 (MOD) and I
can confirm that all the information in scope of your request is held.
The information you have requested can be found enclosed, at Annex A, but some of the
information falls entirely within the scope of the absolute exemptions provided for at Sections 40
(Personal Data) of the FOIA and has been redacted.
Section 40(2) has been applied to some of the information in order to protect personal information
as governed by the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018. Section 40
is an absolute exemption and there is therefore no requirement to consider the public interest in
making a decision to withhold the information.
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
CIO-FOI-
xx@xxx.xxx.xx). Please note that any request for an internal review should be made in writing
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,
DIO Secretariat
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