Department of Health and Social Care

The complainant has requested information relating to a consultation run by the Department of Health and Social Care entitled “Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping". The Department of Health and Social Care (‘DHSC’) provided links to the requested information that was already available, advised that some information was not held and that it was relying on section 27(2) of FOIA (international relations) and section 35 of FOIA (formulation of government policy) to withhold the remainder of the requested information. The Commissioner’s decision is that DHSC was entitled to rely on section 27(2) of FOIA to withhold some of the information concerning question two of the request. The Commissioner does not require further steps.