Cabinet Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office for an updated version of the ‘G-cloud’ dataset and details of its future publication schedule for this dataset. The Cabinet Office refused the request on the basis of section 22(1) of FOIA in its refusal notice and then subsequently relied on section 21(1) of FOIA in its internal review as an updated version of this dataset had now been published. The complainant disagreed with the application of both of these exemptions, complained about the time it took the Cabinet office to respond to the request, raised concerns about the accuracy of the dataset which had been published and complained that the Cabinet Office had failed, in response to his request, to provide information about the future publication schedule for this dataset. The Commissioner has concluded that sections 22(1) and 21(1) do not apply to the request and that the Cabinet Office breached section 17(1) by failing to respond to the request within 20 working days. However, the Commissioner is satisfied that the Cabinet Office did hold any information about the future publication schedule for this dataset at the point the request was submitted and that the complainant’s concerns about the accuracy of the data published are not ones that fall to be considered under section 50 of FOIA.