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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
22 June 2016, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for information about the activities and death of British citizen Helen Smith in Saudi Arabia in May 1979 that covered the period June 1981 to December 1981. The FCO argued that the request was vexatious because complying with it would place a grossly oppressive burden on it. It therefore refused the request on the basis of section 14(1) of FOIA. The Commissioner has decided that the FCO is entitled to refuse the request on this basis.
FOI 14: Not upheld