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Cite as: [2015] UKICO FER0541832, [2015] UKICO FER541832
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2 February 2015, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for information about discussions between the UK government and Ugandan government about Tullow Oil. The FCO provided the complainant with a digest of information contained within eight documents. Further information was withheld on the basis that it was exempt from disclosure on the basis of one of the following exceptions within the EIR: regulation 12(5)(a) (international relations); 12(5)(e) (commercial confidentiality); or 12(3) (personal data). The complainant argued that the public interest favoured disclosing the withheld information. The Commissioner’s decision is that regulation 12(5)(a) is engaged for the information identified in the annex attached to this notice and the public interest favours maintaining the exception. Regulation 12(3) is engaged but only in respect of certain information identified in the attached annex. Regulation 12(5)(e) is engaged for the information identified in the annex attached to this notice and the public interest favours maintaining the exception. The exception to this finding is in relation to the following information which the Commissioner does not accept is exempt from disclosure on the basis of regulation 12(5)(e): Document 2 – paragraph 5; Document 2 – paragraph 6 with the exception of the third and fourth sentence of that paragraph; Document 5 – paragraphs 5, 6, 9 and 10; Document 7 – paragraph 4. The Commissioner requires the public authority to provide the complainant with the information identified below: Document 2 – paragraph 5; Document 2 – paragraph 6 with the exception of the third and fourth sentence of that paragraph; Document 5 – paragraphs 5, 6, 9 and 10; Document 7 – paragraph 4. The information redacted from the headers of documents 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. This decision notice is currently under appeal to the Tribunal.
EIR 12(3): Not upheld EIR 12(5)(a): Not upheld EIR 12(5)(e): Partly upheld