As 'principal officer' of the Department of Defence for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act), the Secretary is responsible to the Ministers for the satisfactory operation of the FOI Act within Defence. The Secretary has certain powers and responsibilities under the FOI Act. For example, the Secretary may approve arrangements for decision-making under the Act and may arrange for the conduct of internal reviews, applied for under section 54 of the FOI Act, of decisions made on FOI requests.
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