Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO, now part of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, FCDO) seeking information about a ‘Corporate and Programme Effectiveness Team’ set up by the Department for International Development. The FCO explained that it did not hold any information falling within the scope of the request. The complainant argued that the FCO was likely to hold such information. The Commissioner’s decision is that on the balance of probabilities the FCO did not hold any information falling within the scope of the request.