Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

The complainant submitted a request to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office seeking information about the incarceration and/or extradition of Julian Assange. The FCDO refused the request on the basis of 12(2) of FOIA arguing that it would exceed the appropriate cost limit to determine whether it held any information falling within the scope of the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the FCDO were entitled to rely on section 12(2) of FOIA.