Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Date 19 May 2016
- Sector Central government
- Decision(s) FOI 27: Not upheld, FOI 40: Not upheld
The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for information concerning the negotiations between the UK and Faroes/Denmark during the 1990s that led to the Maritime Delimitation Agreement in 1999. The FCO provided the complainant with some of the information falling within the scope of his request but refused to provide the remainder citing the exemptions contained at the following sections of FOIA: 27(1)(a) and (c), 27(2) (international relations), 42(1) (legal professional privilege) and 40(2) (personal data). The Commissioner has found that the withheld information is exempt from disclosure on the basis of sections 27(1)(a), 27(1)(c) and section 40(2).