Information Commissioner's Office

Cabinet Office

8 November 2016, Central government

The complainant submitted a request to the public authority for the minutes (and related correspondence) of the Cabinet meeting in which the coalition government decided to veto the Commissioner’s decision in 2011 ordering the Department of Health to publish the NHS risk register. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority was entitled to rely on the exemption at section 35(1)(b) to withhold the information held within the scope of the request.

FOI 35: Not upheld