Cabinet Office
- Date 25 May 2023
- Sector Central government
- Decision(s) FOI 23: Not upheld
The complainant submitted a request to the Cabinet Office seeking correspondence between Ministers and Baroness Mone (Michelle Mone), PPE Medpro and Anthony Page (a director of PPE Medpro). The Cabinet Office initially withheld this information on the basis of section 43(2) (commercial interests) of FOIA. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation of this complaint the Cabinet Office sought to rely on section 23(1) (security bodies) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the requested information is exempt from disclosure on the basis of section 23(1) of FOIA.