Cabinet Office

The complainant requested information from the Cabinet Office about email retention arrangements for correspondence to and from Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. By the date of this notice the Cabinet Office had not issued a substantive response to this request.
The Commissioner’s decision is that the Cabinet Office has breached section 10 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 Cabinet Office to take the following step to ensure compliance with the legislation: The Cabinet Office must provide a substantive response to the request in accordance with its obligations under the FOIA.