3 April 2017, Central government
The complainant requested information associated with a specified grant to the Community Service Trust (‘CST’). The Home Office applied section 14(2) of FOIA (repeated request). Having considered its handling of the request, the Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office did not apply section 14(2) appropriately to that request for the reasons set out in this notice. The Commissioner requires the Home Office to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: issue a fresh response to the request not relying on section 14(2).
FOI 14: Upheld