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Government Hospitality Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine (Decision Notice) [2010] UKICO FS50277632 (18 October 2010)
Summary: The complainant requested information from the Government Hospitality Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine (GHACPW) about the wines held in the Government Hospitality cellar, including the names of the wines held, suppliers, prices and comments regarding the wines themselves. The GHACPW provided the complainant with an -˜illustrative list-™ of the types of wine it held but refused to provide the remaining information requested on the basis that it was exempt from disclosure by virtue of section 43(2) of the Act. The Commissioner accepts that disclosure of the prices at which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) bought particular wines, and from which suppliers, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of both the suppliers and the FCO and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest favours maintaining the exemption. However, the Commissioner has also concluded that section 43(2) does not provide a basis to withhold the names of the FCO-™s suppliers and furthermore does not provide a basis to withhold the names of the wines held, unallied to the names of who supplied them, but allied to the comments about each particular wine. The GHACPW must therefore provide the complainant with this information.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 43 - Complaint Partly Upheld