Link for IOC full Decision notice pdf file: Office for Students (Health) [2025] UKICO 346092 (16 April 2025)
The complainant has requested information related to three consultations on free speech regulation. The Office for Students (OfS) advised that it doesn't hold some of the information, it communicated some and withheld the remaining information under sections 36(2)(b)(ii), 36(2)(c) and 42(1) of FOIA. These exemptions concern prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs and legal professional privilege, respectively. The Commissioner's decision is that the information being withheld under sections 36(2)(b)(ii) and 36(2)(c) engages those exemptions. He doesn't require any further steps.