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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2021/ic-55601.html
Cite as: [2021] UKICO IC-55601
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Attorney General's Office
The complainant requested information about any advice given by the Attorney General’s Office (the ‘AGO’) in relation to Dominic Cummings and the alleged breach of Covid-19 lockdown regulations. The AGO would neither confirm or deny whether the requested information was held, citing section 35(3) of FOIA (formulation of government policy, etc) by virtue of section 35(1)(c) (the provision of advice by any of the Law Officers or any request for the provision of such advice). It said that the public interest test favoured maintenance of the section 35(3) exemption. The Commissioner’s decision is that the AGO was correct to neither confirm nor deny if this information was held and the public interest in this case supports this position. The Commissioner therefore requires no steps to be taken by the AGO as a result of this notice.FOI 35: Complaint upheld
Decision notice: IC-55601