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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/200580.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 200580

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Home Office

The complainant requested information from two specified reviews relating to offenders, including sex offenders. The Home Office provided the information pertaining to an independent review but refused to provide the requested information for that pertaining to the Home Office’s own internal review. The Home Office cited section 31(1)(a) of FOIA (the exemption for the prevention or detection of crime) and section 35(1)(a) (the exemption for the formulation or development of government policy). The complainant was only concerned with the withheld information relating to the internal review part (part 1) of his request. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation, the Home Office additionally relied on section 40(2) of FOIA (the exemption for personal information). The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office was entitled to rely on section 35(1)(a) to refuse part 1 of the request. As he has determined that section 35(1)(a) is engaged, the Commissioner has not found it necessary to consider the Home Office’s reliance on sections 35(1)(a) and 40(2) of FOIA. The Commissioner requires no steps as a result of this decision. Keywords: name change, deed poll

FOI 35: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 200580