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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/132657.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 132657

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Home Office

The complainant requested information relating to correspondence sent by and/or to the then Home Secretary, Priti Patel, in 2020 which mentioned the ‘death penalty’. The Home Office refused to provide the requested information citing sections 27 (international relations), 35(1)(a), (b) and (d) (formulation of government policy), 36(2)(b)(i), 36(2)(b)(ii) and 36(2)(c) (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs), 40(2) (personal information) and 42(1) (legal professional privilege). The Commissioner has investigated its application of sections 35, 36, and 42 to the information withheld by virtue of those exemptions. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office correctly relied on sections 35, 36 and 42 and that the balance of the public interest favoured maintaining the exemptions. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken as a result of this decision.

FOI 42: Complaint not upheld FOI 35: Complaint not upheld FOI 36: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 132657