Link to IOC for full Decision notice pdf file: Cabinet Office (Central government) [2025] UKICO 344384 (8 May 2025)
The complainant has requested financial information about employees who left the Ministry of Defence in 2016 and 2017. The Cabinet Office disclosed some information and relied on section 40(2) of FOIA (third party personal information) to withhold the remainder. The Commissioner's decision is that the public authority has correctly relied on section 40(2) of FOIA in respect of the withheld information. The Commissioner does not require further steps to be taken.