Our ref: DE00000664523
Dear Mr Perrott,
I refer to your further emails to Anne Milton about benzodiazepine addiction. I have been asked to reply.
I have reviewed correspondence between you and the Department and I note that you have written to the Department on numerous occasions. The Department has received 67 pieces of correspondence from you since March 2010, not including correspondence relating to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. Your correspondence has been replied to consistently and in some instances we have sent a single response to address the concerns raised in several emails or letters, where these were received close to each other.
For your ease of reference, the Department considers it has replied to questions raised in correspondence labelled with the following reference numbers:
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I am sorry that you have not been happy with the content of these replies, but we consider that we have set out the Government’s position. We note that you consider that a number of your questions have gone unanswered. In order to provide answers to these question, we would be grateful if you could review the answers that have already been provided to you and list all outstanding questions so that I can ensure that a final response is sent to you, enabling us to bring correspondence on the issues raised to a close.
Yours sincerely,
Bilal Ghafoor
Correspondence Team Leader
Customer Service Centre
Department of Health