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Department for International Trade
10 October 2017, Central government
The complainant has requested information contained in an email which was sent to the Minister of State for Trade Policy, Greg Hands MP from a US company and which formed the basis of a tweet sent by the Minister. The Department for International Trade refused the request, citing the exemption at section 43(2)(prejudice to commercial interests). Having investigated the Department for International Trade’s application of section 43(2), the Commissioner has found that the Department for International Trade wrongly applied the exemption to the requested information. However, as the Department for International Trade voluntarily disclosed a copy of the email to the complainant during the Commissioner’s investigation, the Commissioner requires no steps to be taken as a result of this decision notice.
FOI 43: Upheld