Financial Conduct Authority
- Date 19 October 2022
- Sector Other
- Decision(s) FOI 31: Not upheld, FOI 42: Not upheld, FOI 44: Not upheld
The complainant has requested information about Football Index. The Financial Conduct Authority (“the FCA”) withheld the requested information and relied variously on sections 31 (law enforcement), 42 (Legal Professional Privilege) and 44 (statutory prohibition) of FOIA to withhold the requested information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the FCA is entitled to rely on section 44 to withhold some of the requested information. Of the remaining information, some engages section 42 of FOIA and, where it does, the balance of the public interest favours maintaining the exemption. The information to which neither of those exemptions applies engages section 31 of FOIA and the balance of the public interest favours maintaining that exemption to. The Commissioner does not require further steps.