Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

The complainant requested information regarding the decision to change the public authority’s official name from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The public authority withheld the information held within the scope of the request relying on the exemptions at section 36(2)(b) FOIA. The Commissioner concluded that the public authority was not entitled rely on section 36(2)(b), and in exercise of her discretion, further concluded that some of the information in scope was exempt on the basis of the exemption at section 42(1) FOIA. This decision notice is currently under appeal to the Tribunal.