Information Commissioner's Office

Cabinet Office

26 July 2016, Central government

The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office for the submissions received by the Holocaust Commission as a result of its national call for evidence. The Cabinet Office withheld the submissions on the basis of the exemptions contained at the following sections of FOIA: section 36 (effective conduct of public affairs), 38 (health and safety), 40 (personal data) and 41 (information provided in confidence). The Commissioner has concluded that the submissions are exempt from disclosure on the basis of the sections 36(2)(b)(i) and (ii) and that in all of the circumstances of the case the public interest favours maintaining the exemptions.

FOI 36: Not upheld