Ministry of Defence — Forensic Assessment

Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: See the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution, people and evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap, not the letter’s contents.

Forensic Assessment — Ministry of Defence

Scope: MOD records only where a concrete Great House Farm/Llandough connection is demonstrated.

Current evidence position

The reviewed material does not establish that MOD determined the private title, possession or demolition of Great House Farm. The Department should not be inserted into the accountability chain without a specific record or statutory function. ^🕒

Forensic control test

Any asserted MOD role must identify the record, date, responsible function, information received and action taken. Historic government involvement elsewhere is not a substitute for such evidence.

Current finding

As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish Ministry of Defence wrongdoing or an operative role in the historic events. This is a source-limited assessment, not proof that no relevant record exists. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Human action

Keep this route parked unless existing court, police, Wales Office, planning or heritage records identify a concrete MOD document. Then issue a narrowly targeted request.

Acceptance: parked with a documented trigger condition.

Institutional appearance timeline — linked source index

Coverage rule: this is a chronological navigation map of published Wiki source pages found by searching the current site index for “Ministry of Defence”. Every event label links directly to the page containing the source. It avoids duplicating source narratives. It records mention/appearance, not culpability. The displayed date is a source/title date cue, not automatically the date on which the named institution acted. This matters for newspaper stories, later summaries and titles naming more than one event; open the source before attributing an act. Search indexing is a discovery aid, not proof of exhaustive coverage. ^🕒

Records-access register appearances — direct row links

Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register’s sender/reference or recorded description. A match shows an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily an act by this institution.

Related navigation: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register · Records Access Chronology · Evidence Library

MOD FOI2026/09190 — internal review dated 10-10-2026: A dedicated evidence record is available at GHF-E169. The MOD describes archive searches and targeted Army Secretariat and Counterterrorism and United Kingdom branch searches, reports no matching information located in those sources, separately applies section 23(5) NCND to Special Forces-related information, acknowledges a timeliness failure without clearly identifying the stage in its conclusion, and says personal-information elements were referred for separate subject access processing. This response does not establish historical involvement or absence of involvement. Keep it distinct from FOI2026/09019 unless the MOD confirms a relationship.