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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/190814.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 190814

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Cabinet Office

The complainant has requested background information relating to the “Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025” from the Cabinet Office. The Cabinet Office provided some information but withheld the remainder citing sections 35(1) (Formulation of Government policy) and 40(2) (Personal information) of FOIA. The complainant queried the small amount of information that had been considered and the Cabinet Office then applied section 12(1) (Cost of compliance) to the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Cabinet Office failed to complete its deliberations on the balance of the public interest within a reasonable time and therefore breached section 17(3) of FOIA. He also finds that the Cabinet Office was entitled to rely on section 12(1) and that there was no breach of section 16(1) (Advice and assistance). No steps are required.

FOI 17: Complaint upheld FOI 16: Complaint not upheld FOI 12: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 190814