Cabinet Office

The complainant has requested records and communications held in paper and electronic form of the meeting(s) held between Alastair Campbell and senior civil servants over revising the structure of the Iraq WMD dossier. The Cabinet Office refused to provide the information it held within the scope of the request, citing section 21 (accessible to the requester) as its basis for doing so. It upheld this at internal review and asserted that it held no further information within the scope of the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Cabinet Office is entitled to rely on section 21 in respect of the information it holds within the scope of the request. The Commissioner has concluded that on the balance of probabilities it holds no further information within the scope of the request. No steps are required.