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Air Command Secretariat
Spitfire Block
Headquarters Air Command
Royal Air Force
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP14 4UE
Ref: FOI 2020/13568
Mr Justin Zacchi
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
12 January 2021
Dear Mr Zacchi,
Thank you for your correspondence of 9 December 2020 requesting the following
information:
“Could you provide a list of the current RAF Cadet wings, along with the groups they
report to (if available), and those wing's current squadrons and locations? I
understand this is a lost to request, so if this information has already been provided
or can be viewed anywhere else, that would work too.”
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 information in scope of your request is held.
All Royal Air Force Air Cadet (RAFAC) Wings report to the Royal Air Force’s 22 Training
Group.
The following table contains the RAFAC Regions, and which Wings reside within each
region.
Region
Wings
Central & East
Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire; Norfolk and
Suffolk; Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire;
South & East Midlands; Trent; Warwick &
Birmingham
London & South East
Essex; Kent; London; Middlesex; Surrey;
Sussex
North
Durham & Northumberland; Central & East
Yorkshire; South & West Yorkshire;
Cumbria & Lancashire; Greater Manchester
Scotland & Northern Ireland
Highland; North East Scotland; South East
Scotland; West Scotland; Northern Ireland
South West
Bristol & Gloucestershire; Devon &
Somerset; Dorset & Wiltshire; Hampshire &
Isle of Wight; Plymouth & Cornwall; Thames
Valley
Wales & West
No 1 Welsh; No 2 Welsh; No 3 Welsh;
Staffordshire & West Mercian; Merseyside
A list of all Squadrons and which Wings they report to can be found at Annex A.
If you have any queries regarding the content of this letter, please contact this office in the
first instance.
If you are not satisfied with this response or 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 Information Rights Compliance Team,
Ground 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 normally
investigate your case until the MoD internal 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,
[Original signed]
Air Command Secretariat
Enc. Annex A: List of all RAFAC Wings and their Squadrons