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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2022/177511.html
Cite as: [2022] UKICO 177511

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Home Office

The complainant requested information from the UK Visas and Immigration Service (Home Office) about a review report concerning  accommodation for asylum seekers at Penally Camp in Tenby and Napier Barracks in Kent. By the date of this notice, the Home Office had not issued a substantive response to this request.  The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office has failed to complete its deliberations on the balance of the public interest within a reasonable time and has therefore breached section 17(3) of FOIA. The Commissioner requires the Home Office to take the following step to ensure compliance with the legislation: Having confirmed whether or not information is held within the scope of the request: either disclose the requested information, if held, or, to the extent that information is to be withheld, issue a refusal notice in accordance with the requirements of section 17 of FOIA.

FOI 17: Complaint upheld

Decision notice: 177511