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Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Decision Notice) [2011] UKICO FS50310785 (14 March 2011)
Summary: The complainant requested inforation concerning the funding of various overseas non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO aggregated the complainant-™s request along with that of his wife-™s made on the same day as both requests had previously been part of a request submitted by the complainant earlier in the year. The FCO refused to comply with the requests on grounds of cost. The complainant did not accept the application of section 12(1) or the fact that the requests were aggregated. Owing to the lack of engagement from the FCO with the ICO-™s investigation, the Commissioner has decided that the FCO has failed to demonstrate that compliance with the request would exceed the appropriate costs limit. The FCO is required to disclose the information to the complainant within 35 calendar days of this Notice. Information Tribunal appeal number EA/2011/0111 has been disposed of by way of a consent order.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 12 - Complaint Upheld