FOI/PMO/2013/113

Dear Jeremy Cooper-Stout

Thank you for your email of 29 September 2013, received by the Prime
Minister’s Office (the PMO), in which you made a request under the Freedom
of Information Act 1982 in the following terms:

I write to request under the Freedom of Information Act, copies of
correspondence to the Interim Leader of the Opposition regarding staffing
levels for the Opposition officers.

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Dear Mr Cooper-Stout,

Please see the attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request to the Prime Minister (reference: FOI/PMO/2013/013).

Regards

FOI Adviser
Legal Policy Branch
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Phone: 02 6271 5849
Email: [Prime Minister request email]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Cooper-Stout [mailto:[FOI #426 email]]
Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2013 4:09 PM
To: FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Staffing levels of opposition officers

Dear Prime Minister,

I write to request under the Freedom of Information Act, copies of
correspondence to the Interim Leader of the Opposition regarding
staffing levels for the Opposition officers.

Yours faithfully,

Jeremy Cooper-Stout

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