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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/192103.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 192103

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Home Office

The complainant requested flight cost related information for aircraft chartered for Rwanda relocations to date, including that which had been scheduled to fly migrants to Rwanda on 14 June 2022. He also requested hotel accommodation costs in Rwanda. The Home Office refused to provide the requested flight related information citing section 43(2) of FOIA, the exemption for commercially sensitive information. It said it did not hold the hotel related information because the Government of Rwanda has responsibility for providing accommodation. From the outset of the Commissioner’s investigation (for the reasons set out in the ‘Scope’ section of this notice) the scope of the investigation focussed only on the Home Office’s reliance on section 43(2) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office has properly relied on section 43(2) of FOIA and that the public interest favours maintaining the exemption. No steps are required as a result of this notice.

FOI 43: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 192103