London Borough of Croydon

The complainant submitted two requests to the London Borough of Croydon (the Council) seeking information about whether two named organisations had received funding to delivery Prevent training and programmes. The Council refused to confirm or deny whether it held information falling within the scope of the requests on the basis of section 24(2) (national security) of FOIA. The Commissioner has concluded that the Council is entitled to rely on section 24(2) of FOIA to refuse to confirm or deny whether it holds any information falling within the scope of either request and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest favours maintaining this exemption in for each request.