This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'RWMAC report on MOD contaminated Land'.




 
 
DIO Sec-Sec PBFOI 
 
 
Mr FWP Dawson  
Secretariat 
 
Defence Infrastructure Organisation 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx 
Kingston Road 
 
Sutton Coldfield 
 
West Midlands 
 
B75 7RL 
 
 
Tel:  +44 (0)121 311 2451   
 
Fax: +44 (0)121 311 3809   
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx 
Ref. 03-11-2011-114125-005 
 
www.mod.uk/DIO 
 
 
1 December 2011 
 
 
 
Dear Mr Dawson 
 
Request for Information: Implementation of RWMAC Advice to Ministers 
 
Thank you for your enquiry dated 3 November 2011. This was passed to the Defence 
Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), the Ministry of Defence (MOD) body responsible for managing 
the defence estate and has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. 
 
You asked for information relating to the MODs implementation of the recommendations contained 
within the 2000 report entitled “RWMAC's Advice to Ministers on The Ministry of Defence's 
Arrangements for Dealing with Radioactively Contaminated Land”. In particular you were 
interested in the recommendations relating to the setting up of a database and maintenance 
record. 
 
I can confirm that the MOD holds information that falls within scope of your request. 
 
Please find attached a copy of the original report along with the covering letter, a Loose Minute 
with accompanying draft letter from Minister in response, and an up to date copy of the RWMAC 
Action Plan. Please be advised that a copy of the final letter from Minister has not been able to be 
located. I have been advised that RWMAC was disbanded a few years after the report was 
published, and as such further correspondence on the topic has not been found. I also attach an 
undated draft RWMAC Action Plan for your information, which is believed to have been produced 
around the time of the original report being issued. 
 
You will see from the undated draft document, that Defence Estates was to develop an Access 
database in the short term to record summary information from Land Quality Assessments 
(LQAs). In the longer term this was to be integrated into a MOD wide Environmental Information 
System. 
 
During the development of the database it was determined that the most appropriate solution was 
to catalogue all LQAs, create an electronic copy of the LQA reports, link this information to the 

 
‘Defence Property Gazetteer’ database, and create a layer on the MOD ‘Geographic online Data 
for the Estate’ system that shows the geographical location of each LQA. Access to complete 
reports exceeded the original brief of only including summary information in the database. 
  
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, www.ico.gov.uk
 
Yours sincerely 
 
DE Sec-Sec PBFOI