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XXXXXXX June 2006

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI)

ACT 2000

Thank you for your FOI request dated 5 June 2006, seeking information on Air Vice-
Marshal (AVM) appointments between 1 August 2005 and 1 June 2006. The following
Air Vice-Marshals were appointed during the period in question:

AVM C N Harper CBE * Chief of Staff (Operations)

HQ Strike Command

AVM C M Nickols CBE * Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations)

MOD London

AVM J A Cliffe OBE Director General Training & Education

MOD London

AVM N A Bairsto MBE * Director General Defence Logistics Transformation

HQ Defence Logistics Organisation

AVM C W Ness Chief of Staff (Strategy, Policy & Plans)

HQ Strike Command

AVM D R G Rennison CB Director General Logistics (Strike)

HQ Defence Logistics Organisation

AVM P D Rawson * Chief of Staff (Support)

HQ Strike Command
AVM A G Walton CBE * Deputy Chief of Joint Operations (Operations Support)
Permanent Joint Headquarters

AVM S D Butler * Capability Manager (Information Superiority)

MOD London

AVM R H Lacey CBE * Commander British Forces Cyprus

AVM S G G Dalton CB Director General Typhoon

HQ Defence Procurement Agency

AVM S Bryant CBE * Chief of Staff (Personnel) and Air Secretary

HQ Personnel & Training Command

AVM P W D Ruddock CBE Director General, Saudi Arabia Armed Forces Project

Rev (AVM) P W Mills QHC * Director General Chaplaincy Services (RAF)

HQ Personnel & Training Command

* denotes on promotion to AVM.

If you are dissatisfied with the information provided under the FOI Act or wish to complain
about any aspect of the handling of this request, then you should contact the
undersigned in the first instance. Should you remain dissatisfied, then you may apply for
an internal review by contacting the Director of Information Exploitation, 6th Floor, MOD
Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail Info-XD@mod.uk).

If you are still unhappy following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the FOI Act. Please
note that the Information Commissioner will not normally 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,
http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

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