Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

The complainant requested information from the Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”) relating to minutes of a meeting between Oliver Dowden, Lord Brownlow and the Royal Albert Hall. By the date of this notice DCMS had failed to provide a substantive response to this request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DCMS has breached has failed to complete its deliberations on the balance of the public interest within a reasonable time and has therefore breached section 17(3) of FOIA. The Commissioner requires DCMS to respond to the complainant’s response in accordance with the FOIA. DCMS must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice.