Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant requested information relating the termination of a key contract on a major public IT project. The public authority provided some information within the scope of the request. However, it refused to provide the remainder citing the audit, commercial interests and development of government policy exemptions as its basis for doing so. It upheld this position on internal review. The Commissioner has decided that the public authority was entitled to rely on the audit exemption (section 33) as a basis for withholding the requested information.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 33 - Complaint Not upheld