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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/157391.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 157391

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Cabinet Office

The complainant has requested information about the release of the ‘Spycatcher’ files to the National Archives. The Cabinet Office refused the entire request stating that it did not constitute a valid request for recorded information as outlined in FOIA. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation the Cabinet Office amended its position and stated that parts 2(ii) and 3(i)-(iv) of the request were not valid under FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that parts 1, 2(i)-(iii) and 3(i) meet the definition of a valid request under section 8 of FOIA, therefore the Cabinet Office were not entitled to refuse these parts of the request, however, parts 3(i)-(iv) are not valid under section 8 of FOIA. The Commissioner considers that the information provided by the Cabinet Office in its response to his investigation satisfies part 1 and 2(i)-(iii) of the request, and that, due to its wording, it is not obligated to provide a response to part3(i) of the request.

FOI 8: Complaint partly upheld

Decision notice: 157391