Cabinet Office
10 November 2016, Central government
The complainant requested information relating to the kidnapping and murder of British journalist and United Nations aid worker, Alec Collett in Lebanon in 1985.The Commissioner has concluded that the public authority was entitled to rely on the exclusions contained in sections 23(5) and 24(2) FOIA to neither confirm nor deny whether it holds any information within the scope of the request which would be exempt on the basis of sections 23(1) and 24(1) FOIA (Information relating to security bodies and National Security). The Commissioner has however also concluded that the public authority was not entitled to withhold information within the scope of the request on the basis of the exemptions contained in sections 27(1)(a), (c) and (d) FOIA (International relations).
FOI 23:
Not upheld FOI 24:
Not upheld FOI 27:
Not upheld
