Summary: The complainant has requested a copy of the Department for Work and Pension-™s (DWP-™s) business case for the universal credit programme. The DWP refused to provide this information on the basis of section 36(2)(b) and (c). The Commissioner-™s decision is that the DWP correctly engaged the exemption and after considering the public interest arguments the DWP were correct to withhold the business case and a number of the annexes. The Commissioner found that the exemptions were not correctly applied to annexes I and L. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose annexes I and L.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 36 - Complaint Partly Upheld