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Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Decision Notice) [2010] UKICO FS50294696 (18 October 2010)
Summary: The complainant made three requests for information about money provided by the UK to Zimbabwe in the 1980s. He also explained that he believed that specified sums of money were provided to Mr Robert Mugabe-™s Government at this time and asked for -˜accountability-™ about those amounts. The public authority provided some recorded information that it held about this matter. For the first two requests it explained that it was all the relevant recorded information it had. For the third request, it explained that it was unable to process the request as it would take work beyond the costs limit to do so [section 12(1)]. The Commissioner cannot accept, on the balance of probabilities, that no further recorded information is held for the first two requests so has found two breaches of section 1(1)(a). However, he is satisfied that section 12(1) applies appropriately to the three requests taken together as the work required to process them considerably exceeds 24 hours. He also found that there were procedural breaches of section 10(1) and 17(5), but requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 12 - Complaint Not upheld, FOI 16 - Complaint Not upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld