Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The complainant requested information relating to the Overseas Security and Justice Assistance Guidance specifically in connection with any decision by the United Kingdom to provide or to continue to provide counter-narcotics assistance to Pakistan law enforcement agencies from December 2011. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority was entitled to withhold information within the scope of Part 1 of the request on the basis of the exemption at section 23(1) FOIA. Furthermore, that the public authority was entitled to neither confirm nor deny whether it held any information within the scope of Parts 2 and 3 of the request on the basis of the exemption at section 27(4)(a) FOIA. No steps required. Information Tribunal appeal EA/2014/0233 dismissed.