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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2024/208105.html
Cite as: [2024] UKICO 208105

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Cabinet Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office seeking information it held relating to a visit to the University of Southampton in March 2018 concerning the diaries and letters of the 1st Earl and Countess Mountbatten. The Cabinet Office disclosed some information to the complainant but sought to withhold additional information on the basis of sections 40(2) (personal data) and 41(1) (information provided in confidence) of FOIA. The complaiant challenged the Cabinet Office’s decision to withhold information and argued that additional information was likely to be held falling within the scope of his request. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation the Cabinet Office withdrew its reliance on section 41(1) and located additional information falling within the scope of the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, the Cabinet Office has now located all of the information falling within the scope of the request. The Commissioner has also concluded that the information withheld on the basis of section 40(2) is exempt from disclosure on the basis of this provision of FOIA.

FOI 1: Complaint upheld FOI 40: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 208105