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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
3 September 2015, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to see the content of a file described as ‘Project Propel: papers’ on the authority’s online inventory of its Special Collections. The FCO originally sought to withhold the requested information on the basis of section 24 (national security) and section 27 (international relations) of FOIA. It subsequently sought to rely on section 23 (security bodies) of FOIA rather than section 24. The Commissioner’s decision is that the requested information is exempt from disclosure on the basis of section 23(1) of FOIA. However, the Commissioner has also concluded that the FCO breached section 17(3) by failing to conduct its public interest considerations with a reasonable timeframe.
FOI 17: Upheld FOI 23: Not upheld