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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2022/ic-69489.html
Cite as: [2022] UKICO ic-69489

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Ministry of Defence

The complainant submitted a request to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) containing a number of questions relating to the ‘Shifta War’ in Kenya in the early 1960s, issues relating to the health and treatment of service personnel, and matters concerning war pensions. The MOD provided some information in response to the request, but sought to withhold further information on the basis of section 21 (information reasonably accessible to the complainant) and section 40 (personal data). The complainant contacted the Commissioner in order to challenge a number of aspects of the MOD’s handling of his request, primarily that it should have provided more information to him in response to his request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the MOD has located and disclosed all of the information that it is obliged to provide the complainant when responding to his request. However, the Commissioner has concluded that the MOD breached section 10(1) of FOIA by failing to respond to a new, clarified request within 20 working days which the complainant had submitted to it during the course of the parties’ correspondence.

FOI 10: Complaint upheld FOI 1: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: ic-69489