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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1 November 2017, Central government
The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for information about two television programmes, ‘BBC Panorama: Rescued from a Forced Marriage’ and ‘KEO Films for BBC3: Bangkok Airport’. The FCO disclosed some information falling within the scope of this request but withheld further information on the basis of sections 36(2)(b)(i), 36(2)(b)(ii) and 36(2)(c) (effective conduct of public affairs) and section 40(2) (personal data) of FOIA. The Commissioner has concluded that the FCO is entitled to rely on all of these exemptions in the manner in which it has. However, the Commissioner has concluded that the FCO breached section 10(1) of FOIA by failing to disclose the non-exempt information within 20 working days.
FOI 36: Not upheld FOI 40: Not upheld FOI 10: Upheld