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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Information Commissioner's Office >> Department for International Development (Central government) [2018] UKICO fer0726599 (26 July 2018)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2018/fer0726599.html
Cite as: [2018] UKICO fer0726599, [2018] UKICO fer726599
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Department for International Development
The complainant submitted a request to the Department for International Development (DFID) for a copy of the Terms of Reference for on external individual expert appointed by DFID to investigate the St Helena airport project. DFID refused to disclose this information citing the exceptions contained at regulations 12(5)(a) (adverse effect on international relations), 12(5)(b) (course of justice) and 12(5)(e) (confidentiality of commercial and industrial information) of the EIR. The Commissioner has concluded that the Terms of Reference and are exempt from disclosure on the basis of regulation 12(5)(b) and that in all of the circumstances of the case the public interest favours maintaining the exception.EIR 12(5)(b): Complaint not upheld
Decision notice: fer0726599