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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/208011.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 208011

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Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

The complainant submitted a ‘meta request’ to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) seeking copies of internal communications concerning its refusal of a previous FOI request he had submitted to it. DCMS withheld the information falling within the scope of the meta request on the basis of sections 36(2)(b)(i) and (ii). The Commissioner’s decision is that the withheld information is exempt from disclosure on the basis of these exemptions and that for the majority of the information the public interest in favour of maintaining the exemptions outweighs the public interest in disclosure. However, for some of the information withheld on the basis of section 36(2)(b)(ii) the Commissioner has decided that the public interest in disclosure outweighs the public interest in maintaining the exemption.

FOI 36: Complaint partly upheld

Decision notice: 208011