Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Date 21 November 2013
- Sector Central government
- Decision(s) FOI 27: Not upheld, FOI 40: Not upheld
The complainant has requested emails between an FCO official and a named company. FCO provided some information but withheld other information relying on the section 27(1), 40(2), 41(1), 42(1), and 43(2) FOIA exemptions. A further small amount of information was disclosed during the Commissioner’s investigation and FCO also withdrew from its reliance on section 43 FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that FCO has applied the section 27(1), 40(2), 41(1) FOIA exemptions correctly to the withheld information. The Commissioner does not require FCO to take any further action to comply with the legislation.