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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2022/119788.html
Cite as: [2022] UKICO 119788
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Attorney General's Office
The complainant has requested, from the Attorney General’s Office (the “AGO”), emails generated between itself and the “Clearing House” business area at the Cabinet Office. The AGO disclosed most of the requested information (in an anonymised format, in agreement with the complainant), but withheld two email chains citing sections 36(2)(b)(i), 36(2)(b)(ii) and 36(2)(c) (Prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that some withheld information (the requests within the email chains) does not fall within any of the section 36 exemptions cited, but does fall within the scope of the request so should have been disclosed; in failing to do so the AGO breached section 1(1)(b)(General right of access) of FOIA. He also finds that, where section 36 is engaged, the public interest favours disclosure. The Commissioner requires the AGO to disclose the remaining two emails in the format they were presented to the Qualified Person (ie anonymised).FOI 36: Complaint upheld FOI 1: Complaint upheld
Decision notice: 119788