Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

The complainant has requested information about the repeal of section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.The then Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (now the Department for Culture, Media and Sport or DCMS) relied on section 35 (formulation or development of government policy) to withhold requested information from the complainant. The Commissioner’s decision is that the exemption at section 35 is engaged and he finds that the public interest in maintaining the exemption does outweigh the public interest in disclosure.