xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx
Tyler Binge
Defence Equipment & Support
Whatdotheyknow
Maple 0a #2043
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
MOD Abbey Wood
WhatDoTheyKnow
Bristol BS34 8JH
Our Reference: FOI2018/03467
Date: 9 April 2017
Dear Mr Binge,
Your emails dated from 7 March to 3 April 2018 are considered to be a request for information under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. You submitted eight requests for information on a total
of 110 vehicles.
I can confirm that information in scope of your request is held. However, is not possible to provide
the information requested without exceeding the appropriate limit for responding to FOI requests.
Section 12 of the FOIA makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where
the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for central government is set
at £600. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3.5 working days in determining
whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
Additionally, section 12(4) of the FOI Act provides that where two or more requests for information
are made to a public authority, the estimated total cost of complying with all of them should be
considered. It is not possible to give a precise estimate of the costs it would entail to undertake the
task for these requests, however it would clearly exceed £600.
Section 16 of the FOIA requires public authorities to provide advice and assistance to requesters, so
far as it is reasonable to do so. You may, therefore, wish to consider refining your request to no more
than 100 vehicles at any one time, and submit this after 30 May 2018. Additionally, you should note
that any subsequent and additional requests for information received within 60 consecutive working
days would also be considered in scope of section 12(4) of the FOI Act. You are also advised that
any refinement will be treated as a new request and be subject to the full requirements of the FOIA.
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 stil dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the
Information Rights Compliance team, 1st Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehal , 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 wil 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 websit
e, http://www.ico.org.uk. Yours sincerely,
DE&S Secretariat Parliamentary
