DE&S Secretariat (Land Equipment)
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Mr James Ryan
Defence Equipment & Support
Via:
Maple 0a # 2043
MOD Abbey Wood
Bristol BS34 8JH
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21st August 2018 Our Ref: FOI2018/09815
Dear Mr Ryan
Thank you for your email of 22nd July 2018 requesting the following information:
Could you please supply the history and any other information you hold for the unique vehicle: Leyland
Daf Truck, 48KK24
Also the history, plus any documentation including manuals and any other information you hold for unit:
Container Machine Shop, 09TC52
I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) 2000. Please find the information you requested regarding the unit Container Machine Shop in
the attachment.
Some of the information you have requested falls within the scope of the absolute exemptions provided
for at Section 21 (Information Reasonably Accessible to the Applicant by Other Means) and Section 40
(Personal Information) of the Act and has been withheld.
Section 21 has been applied to some of the information as it is already in the public domain. 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 the Data Protection Act 2018. Sections 21 and 40 are
absolute exemptions and there is therefore no requirement to consider the public interest in making a
decision to withhold the information.
Under Section 16 of the Act (Advice and Assistance) you may find it helpful to note that the MOD recently
published links to a copy of MERLIN 2.0 which will assist you in finding the history of Leyland Daf Truck
(48KK24). You can therefore access the MERLIN records through the following link,
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi-responses-published-by-mod-week-commencing-09-july-
2018.
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 xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx). Please note that
any request for an internal review should be made 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
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the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's website at
https://ico.org.uk/.
Yours sincerely,
DES SEC Pol Sec Land Equipment
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