§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library copies of the RAF's end of year performance reports in 1996–97 and 1997–98. [76736]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonThe RAF End of Year Performance Report is a document designed to report on the Service's performance against its Management Plan over the past year, and identifies key issues and themes with major implications for the following year. As such it contains information on operational capabilities of elements of the Armed Forces.
For these reasons I am withholding these documents under Exemptions 1 (Defence, Security and International Relations) and 2 (Internal Discussion and Advice) of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
An unclassified account of the MOD's performance can be found in the Departmental Performance Report, which was published on 30 November 1998 and is available in the Library of the House.