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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2018/fs50700072.html
Cite as: [2018] UKICO fs50700072

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Cabinet Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office for information it held concerning the transfer of the Stone of Scone to Scotland in 1996. The Cabinet Office responded to the request - outside of the 20 working days required by FOIA - and withheld all of the information falling within the scope. Some 18 months after the request, and during the Commissioner’s investigation of this complaint, the Cabinet Office disclosed the majority of the requested information. In withholding the remainder of the information the Cabinet Office sought to rely on the exemptions contained at the following sections of FOIA: 27(1)(a) (international relations), 37(1)(a) (communications with the Sovereign), 40(2) (personal data), and 41(1) (information provided in confidence). The complainant does not dispute the application of these exemptions but is dissatisfied with the Cabinet Office’s delays in handling his request. The Commissioner has concluded that such delays resulted in the Cabinet Office breaching the procedural requirements of FOIA contained at sections 10(1) and 17(1) of FOIA.

FOI 17: Complaint upheld FOI 10: Complaint upheld

Decision notice: fs50700072