Department of Health

The complainant has requested minutes and papers from the Department of Health’s (DoH) transactions board. The DoH provided some information to the complainant but withheld some of the papers on the basis of section 43(2) and 35(1)(a) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DoH has correctly applied section 43(2) to withhold the majority of the documents. For the remaining documents which were subject to section 35, the Commissioner finds the exemption is engaged but the balance of the public interest lies in disclosure. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the documents entitled “Dalton Incentives recommendation” with the names of junior officials redacted.