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Ministry of Defence: Disclosure of Information

Answer

The Ministry of Defence takes great care to respect the wishes of bereaved families. In accordance with Joint Service Publication 832 ‘Guide to Service Inquiries’, Service Inquiries (SIs) are redacted prior to publication, including the removal of any bereaved family members names. Redactions are carried out in strict accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.

The Department will always give a minimum of seven days’ notice to Next-of-Kin prior to the publication of an SI. In many cases, the notification period is significantly longer. The requested information on the six SIs which were published in the period 2014 to 2016 which involved at least one fatality is given below.

Date of SI Completion	Date of SI Publication on Gov.uk	Notification of publication to Affected Families
15 May 2013	6 February 2014	Minimum of 7 days
7 November 2013	30 June 2014	March 2014
11 March 2015	14 July 2015	29 April 2015
3 February 2016	17 March 2016	5 February 2016
4 March 2016	17 August 2016	1 April 2016
15 September 2016	15 December 2016	26 October 2016

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

117675

Session

2017-19

Related items

Minsitry of Defence: Disclosure of information
Monday, 4 December 2017
Written questions
House of Commons

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Disclosure of information Armed forces Families Publications Ministry of Defence

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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