Information Commissioner's Office

Home Office

7 November 2016, Central government

The complainant requested a copy of the 4 June 2014 independent internal review of the domestic homicide review process of the Home Office Domestic Violence Unit. The Home Office refused the request relying on the section 36(2)(b) FOIA exemption. The Commissioner’s decision is that the section 36(2)(b) exemption is engaged but the public interest in disclosing the review outweighed that in maintaining the exemption so that the exemption had therefore been wrongly applied. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the review to ensure compliance with the legislation.

FOI 36: Upheld