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Cabinet Office
20 June 2017, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office seeking information relating to the ‘shortlisting’ of David Cameron’s resignation honours list. The Cabinet Office argued that the shortlisting process was conducted in Mr Cameron’s personal and political capacity and thus any information generated by this process would not be held by the Cabinet Office for the purposes of FOIA. The Commissioner accepts that there is a political dimension to the shortlisting process. However, in her view any information generated by this process would also be held for official purposes and therefore if any such recorded information is physically held by the Cabinet Office then such information would be held by the Cabinet Office for the purposes of FOIA. The Commissioner requires the Cabinet Office to confirm or deny whether information falling within the scope of the request is held, and if so disclose or refuse any information identified.
FOI 1: Upheld