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Department for Education (Decision Notice) [2012] UKICO FS50442792 (02 October 2012)
Summary: The complainant made a freedom of information request to the Department for Education (DfE) for communications with the Daily Telegraph newspaper. The complainant specified that he expected to be provided with any information held on private email accounts where this related to official business. The DfE failed to respond to the complainant-™s request. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the DfE has breached section 10(1) of FOIA by failing to respond to the complainant-™s request within 20 working days. The Commissioner requires the public authority to state which information it holds within the scope of the complainant-™s request, and communicate the information it holds to the complainant and/or issue a refusal notice in respect of all or parts of the information it intends to withhold in accordance with section 17 of the FOIA.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld