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Cite as: [2016] UKICO FS50606009
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Cabinet Office
26 July 2016, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) seeking information about the consultation announced in 2011 to extend the Freedom of Information Act to awarding bodies. The MoJ withheld the requested information on the basis of sections 35(1)(a), 35(1)(b) and 40(2) of FOIA. Although the complainant submitted his request to the Ministry of Justice, following the move of policy responsibility for FOI to the Cabinet Office after the request, the Commissioner is satisfied that the Cabinet Office is the appropriate public authority upon which to serve this decision notice. The Commissioner has concluded that all of the withheld information falls within the scope of section 35(1)(a) and that for the majority of the information the public interest favours maintaining this exemption. However, for the remainder of the information the Commissioner has concluded that the public interest favours disclosing the information.
FOI 35: Partly upheld