Department for Education

The complainant has requested information relating to a myth-busting document produced by the Department for Education (the DfE). The DfE disclosed some emails but disclosed some information under section 40(2). The remaining correspondence held by the DfE was withheld under section 36(2)(b)(ii) and 36(2)(c). The Commissioner’s decision is that the DfE has correctly applied the provisions of section 36(2)(b)(ii) to the correspondence and the public interest favours withholding the information. The Commissioner also finds section 40(2) is engaged in relation to the information withheld from the emails and this has been correctly withheld.