Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The complainant has requested information relating to the payment for private education for the public authority’s staff. Some information was provided but the remainder was refused on the grounds that provision would exceed the appropriate limit at section 12(1) of the FOIA. The Information Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority has correctly applied section 12(1) of FOIA as a basis for non-disclosure of the requested information. However, it did breach section 16.