Home Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Home Office for information provided to the Home Secretary to support statements in press articles asserting that child rapists, those who posed a threat to national security, serious criminals and failed asylum seekers were abusing the Modern-Day Slavery System. The Home Office provided a response to the request however, withheld some information under Section 40 (personal information) of FOIA.
The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office was entitled to rely on section 40 (2) of FOIA to withhold the information. The Commissioner has found the Home Office breached section 10 of FOIA as the initial response was outside required timescales. The Commissioner does not require the Home Office to take any further steps in relation to this decision notice.