Department of Health and Social Care

The complainant requested information from the Department for Health and Social Care relating to emails between the UK Government and Mr Matt Hancock’s private email account(s). By the date of this notice the Department for Health and Social Care had failed to provide a substantive response to this request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Department for Health and Social Care has breached section 10(1) of the FOIA in that it failed to provide a valid response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days. The Commissioner requires the Department for Health and Social Care to respond to the complainant’s request in accordance with the FOIA. The Department for Health and Social Care must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice.