8 November 2016, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the public authority for information relating to the expulsion of two Cuban diplomats from the United Kingdom in 1988. The public authority disclosed some of the information within the scope of the request during the course of the Commissioner’s investigation. The Commissioner has concluded that the public authority was entitled to withhold the remaining information in scope on the basis of the exemption at section 23(1) FOIA (information relating to security bodies).
FOI 23: Not upheld