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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2024/266959.html
Cite as: [2024] UKICO 266959

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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) seeking information about meetings between the FCDO and the Adani Group for the period July to December 2022. The FCDO initially withheld all of the information in scope on the basis of sections 27(1)(a) (international relations), 40(2) (personal data), 41(1) (information provided in confidence) and 43(2) (commercial interests) of FOIA. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation it disclosed some of this information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the remaining withheld information is exempt from disclosure on the basis of sections 27(1)(a), 40(2) or 41(1). The only exception to this a small amount of information in respect of which the Commissioner has concluded that section 27(1)(a) does not apply. The Commissioner has also concluded that the FCDO breached section 17(3) given the length of time it took to complete its public interest test considerations. The FCDO must disclose the information identified by the Commissioner in the confidential annex.

FOI 17: Complaint upheld FOI 40: Complaint not upheld FOI 27: Complaint partly upheld FOI 41: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: 266959