Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

The complainant submitted a request to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) for its Information Asset Register and a list of cost codes issued by the department. The DCMS initially withheld all of this information on the basis of section 31(1)(a) (law enforcement) and part of it on the basis of section 40(2) (personal data) of FOIA. The DCMS subsequently disclosed the list of costs codes in full and a redacted version of the Information Asset Register. The Commissioner has concluded that the information redacted from the Information Asset Register is exempt from disclosure on the basis of section 31(1)(a) and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest favours maintaining this exemption.