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 ===== 260906Natural England EIR Request - Tees Maintenance Dredging Protocol Consultation =====
+===== Summary =====
+PD Ports have only consulted on the Maintenance Dredging Protocol in 2026 and as this consultation is considered to be still ongoing most of the request were refused.
 ===== Request =====
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 September 2026
-**Access to Information Request – Request no EIR2026/11777 **
+**Access to Information Request – Request no EIR2026/11777**
 Thank you for your request for information, which we received on 06 September 2026.
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 You asked for the following information (text in bold below). Please find below our response to each of your questions below which  is  part  of  a  direct  request  from  PD  Ports  to yourselves on the River Tees and Hartlepool Maintenance Dredging Protocol.
-**1.   Please confirm that PD Ports has consulted yourselves directly on the Port of Tees and Hartlepool Maintenance Dredging Protocol and the years of these consultations. **
+**1.   Please confirm that PD Ports has consulted yourselves directly on the Port of Tees and Hartlepool Maintenance Dredging Protocol and the years of these consultations.**
 PD ports consulted Natural England in 2026.
-**2.  Please provide all information, including advice, correspondence, other communications, and meeting minutes related to PD Ports on the original Maintenance Dredging Protocol you were consulted on. **
+**2.  Please provide all information, including advice, correspondence, other communications, and meeting minutes related to PD Ports on the original Maintenance Dredging Protocol you were consulted on.**
 Natural England  can confirm that we do not hold any information relating to the PD Ports consultations prior to 2026. Under Regulation 12(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), I can confirm that the information requested is not held by Natural England. Accordingly, under Regulation 14(1) of the EIR, this response constitutes a formal refusal notice.
-**3. Please provide all information, including advice, correspondence, other communications, and meeting minutes related to PD Port on the most recent Maintenance Dredging protocol you have been consulted on. **
+**3. Please provide all information, including advice, correspondence, other communications, and meeting minutes related to PD Port on the most recent Maintenance Dredging protocol you have been consulted on.**
-** 4. Please also provide information on any revisions as a reviewer of the Maintenance Dredging Protocols you have required PD Ports to carry out. **
+**4. Please also provide information on any revisions as a reviewer of the Maintenance Dredging Protocols you have required PD Ports to carry out.**
 In response to Questions 3 and 4, advice from Natural England is currently being developed through our ongoing Discretionary Advice Service (DAS).
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 Please  note any disclosure  made  under  the  Regulations is  in effect  a  disclosure  to the world  at  large,  as  any  other  applicant  would  be  entitled  to  the  same  information  on request. As such we take this into  consideration when making any decisions as to whether it is in the public interest to disclose or withhold requested information.
-**Regulation 12(5)(d) – Confidentiality of Proceedings **
+**Regulation 12(5)(d) – Confidentiality of Proceedings**
 In Regulation 12(5)(d) of the EIR Regulations “…a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that its disclosure would adversely affect Material in the course of completion, unfinished documents and incomplete data”.