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Financial Conduct Authority
20 July 2016, Local government (Other)
The complainant has requested information about Swift Group trading as Swift Advances Plc. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says that it is not obliged to comply with the request under section 12(1) of the FOIA (cost/time exceeds appropriate limit). It says that section 31(1)(g) (law enforcement); section 43(2) (commercial interests) and section 44(1)(a) (prohibition on disclosure) would also be likely to apply to the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the FCA has correctly applied section 12(1) to the request because the cost of complying with it exceeds the appropriate limit. The Commissioner considers that, as far as it was possible given the scope of the request, the FCA complied with its duty under section 16 of the FOIA to offer advice and assistance.
FOI 12: Not upheld