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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/183352.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 183352

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Department for Culture Media and Sport

The complainant has requested details of payments to external consultants to advise on the privatisation of Channel 4. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”). It refused to provide it citing section 43(2) – commercial interests – as its basis for doing so. It failed to conduct a timely internal review despite being asked to do so by the Commissioner. The Commissioner’s decision is that DCMS is entitled to rely on section 43(2) as its basis for withholding the requested information. The Commissioner does not require further steps.

FOI 43: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 183352