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Cabinet Office (Central government) [2022] UKICO 102300 (13 December 2022)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2022/102300.html
Cite as:
[2022] UKICO 102300
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Cabinet Office
The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office seeking copies of the ‘FOI and EIR round robin list’ issued by the Clearing House for 20 June 2019 to 20 August 2019 and 20 June 2020 to 13 July 2020 (the latter date being the date of the request). The complainant explained that she did not want to be provided with the names of the requesters. The Cabinet Office provided the complainant with copies of the lists but redacted the information contained in the ‘advice’ column on the basis that all of it was exempt under sections 36(2)(b)(i) and (ii) (effective conduct of public affairs) and that parts of it were also exempt under sections 23(1) (security bodies), 24(1) (national security) and 40(2) (personal data) of FOIA. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation the Cabinet Office disclosed (due to the passage of time) the majority of the advice contained in the 2019 lists. The Commissioner’s decision is that although sections 36(2)(i) and (ii), are engaged the public interest favours disclosure of all of the information contained in advice columns for both the remaining 2019 lists and the 2020 lists. The Commissioner has also concluded that section 24(1) does not apply to any of this information. However, the Commissioner has concluded that small portions of the information are exempt from disclosure on the basis of sections 23(1) or 40(2).
FOI 40:
Complaint not upheld
FOI 24:
Complaint upheld
FOI 36:
Complaint upheld
FOI 23:
Complaint not upheld
Decision notice:
102300