Dear Ministry of Defence,

Thank you for your response to my request for an internal review following my request on the above subject ref. FOI2023/09865.

For this fresh request, can you please answer the following:

1. How many sexual offence cases involving victims under age 18 have been handled by the Service Police in the last three full years for which records are available?

2. How many of these cases were in the army?

3. Of the army cases, how many concerned a) female and b) male victims, and how many led to successful prosecution.

This is a simplified version of my earlier request, which was refused because I specified a source that had become obsolete. In this request, I am asking you to provide the information wherever the data may be stored.

If the request exceeds the resource limit, then please answer as much of the request as possible beginning with point 1.

If you believe that releasing the data may disclose the identities of individuals, please have regard to the queries I raised about this in my last request, which were set out in my request for internal review. I believe that the ICO has also asked you to do this, should this be an issue.

My last request took several months to answer, as did the request for internal review. Overall, it took nine months. Please let me know if you expect this request to take longer than 20 working days.

Thank you in advance for your time,

David Gee