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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
27 June 2017, Central government
The complainant submitted three separate requests to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). All three requests sought information about the UK’s relations with Saudi Arabia. The FCO confirmed that it held information falling within the scope of each of the requests but explained that it needed additional time to consider the balance of the public interest test for each of them. To date, the FCO has failed to complete its public interest test deliberations in relation to all three requests. By failing to complete these deliberations within a reasonable timeframe the Commissioner has concluded that the FCO has breached section 17(3) of FOIA in respect of its handling of all three requests.
FOI 17: Upheld