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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2020/ic-40642.html
Cite as: [2020] UKICO IC-40642

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Financial Conduct Authority

The complainant has requested information about a particular company. The Financial Conduct Authority provided some information, stated that it held no information in respect of one part of the request, withheld some information and refused to confirm or deny whether any further information was held. At various points the FCA relied on sections 31, 43 and 44 of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the FCA was entitled to rely on section 44 to withhold information in the manner that it has. She also finds that it was entitled to rely on section 31(3) of the FOIA to neither confirm nor deny holding information within the scope of part of the request. Finally, the Commissioner finds that the FCA’s considerations of the public interest test were completed within a reasonable timeframe however, because the refusal notice it subsequently issued did not cite all the exemptions on which the FCA later came to rely, it breached section 17 of the FOIA. The Commissioner does not require any further steps to be taken.

FOI 17: Complaint upheld FOI 31: Complaint not upheld FOI 44: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: IC-40642