Ministry of Defence

The complainant submitted a two part request to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) seeking information it held regarding Boris Johnson’s visits to Ukraine and his meetings with President Zelensky. The MOD explained that it did not hold any information falling within the first part of the request and that the information it held falling within the second part of the request was exempt from disclosure on the basis of the following exemptions: 23(1) (security bodies) and 24(1) (national security) cited in the alternative, 26 (defence), 27(1)(a) and (c) (international relations), 40 (personal data). The Commissioner’s decision is that on the balance of probabilities the MOD does not hold any information falling within the scope of the first part of the request and the information it does hold in the second part of the request is exempt from disclosure on the basis of sections 27(1)(a) and (c) of FOIA.