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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2020/fs50880131.html
Cite as: [2020] UKICO fs50880131

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Cabinet Office

The complainant has requested information relating to a specific Parish Council and the Cabinet Office. Initially the Cabinet Office advised that it held information but that it required further time to consider the public interest in respect of section 42 (legal professional privilege exemption). It sent a second letter to the complainant saying the same thing. The Commissioner then served a decision notice on the Cabinet Office requiring it to provide a response to this request. It did so out of time and cited section 12 (cost of compliance with the request) as its basis for not responding to the request. The Commissioner has concluded that the Cabinet Office is entitled to rely on section 12 as its basis for refusing to respond to the request. However in failing to tell the complainant that it was relying on section 12 within the time for compliance, the Cabinet Office failed to comply with its obligations under section 17(5). No steps are required.

FOI 12: Complaint upheld FOI 16: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: fs50880131