Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

The complainant has requested details of meetings and discussions with any organisation about the potential for those organisations to take on land currently within the Forestry Commission’s public forest estate. DEFRA identified four pieces of information within the scope of the request and withheld them on the basis of regulation 12(4)(e). The Commissioner’s decision is that DEFRA has correctly applied the internal communications exception and the public interest favours withholding the information.