Cabinet Office

The complainant has requested information from the Cabinet Office about whether Lee Cain had any complaints made about them whilst working as Downing Street Director of Communications in 2020. The Cabinet Office refused to confirm or deny whether there had been any complaints as to do so would breach data protection principles. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority was entitled to rely on section 40(5B)(a)(i) of FOIA to refuse to confirm or deny that it held any information falling within the scope of the request. The Commissioner does not require further steps.