Cabinet Office

The complainant requested the briefing notes presented to the Prime Minister prior to her decision to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Cabinet Office failed to respond to the request within 20 working days and has therefore breached Section 10 of the FOIA. The Commissioner requires the Cabinet Office to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: issue a substantive response, under the FOIA, to the request.