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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2018/fs50723087.html
Cite as: [2018] UKICO fs50723087

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for information it held about the death of her husband overseas. The FCO provided the complainant with some information under FOIA, and also made a number of additional disclosures to her under the Data Protection Act 1998. Under FOIA, the FCO sought to withhold further information on the basis of the exemption contained at section 40(2) (third party personal data) of FOIA. The complainant questioned the FCO’s reliance on this exemption and also argued that the FCO was likely to withhold further information falling within the scope of her request. The Commissioner is satisfied that the information which the FCO has withheld in response to this request is exempt from disclosure on the basis of section 40(2) of FOIA. The only exception to this is a small portion of withheld information which the Commissioner considers to be the complainant’s own personal data and thus is instead exempt from disclosure under FOIA on the basis of section 40(1). The Commissioner has concluded that on the balance of probabilities the FCO does not hold any further information falling within the scope of this request beyond the information previously disclosed to the complainant and that further information which it continues to withhold.

FOI 40: Complaint not upheld FOI 1: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: fs50723087