Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)

The complainant has requested details of requests for information made to energy suppliers to check they are meeting requirements of the Gas Supply Licence. The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (‘Ofgem’) applied section 44 of FOIA (prohibitions on disclosure) to refuse the first two parts of the request and advised it did not hold the information requested in the third part of the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that Ofgem is entitled to withhold the information requested in parts one and two of the request under section 44(1) of FOIA. The Commissioner does not require further steps.