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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2023/216283.html
Cite as: [2023] UKICO 216283

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Home Office

The complainant has requested to know the number of MPs who have been subject to telephone tapping or other intrusive surveillance, since 2000. The Home Office would neither confirm nor deny (‘NCND’) whether it held the requested information, citing sections 23(5) (Information supplied by, or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters), 24(2) (National security), 31(3) (Law enforcement) and 44(2) (Prohibitions on disclosure) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office was entitled to apply section 44 of FOIA to NCND whether it holds the requested information. The Commissioner requires no steps as a result of this decision.

FOI 44: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 216283