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Cabinet Office

  • Date 24 November 2015
  • Sector Central government
  • Decision(s) EIR 12.4.e: Not upheld

The complainant submitted a request to the public authority for copies of correspondence between Ministers and officials in relation to the Government’s position on the European Union’s (EU) proposals for a circular economy package. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority was entitled to withhold the information held within the scope of the request (“the disputed information”) on the basis of the exception at regulation 12(4)(e) of the EIR. No steps are required.