Home Office

The complainant requested information about a firearms prohibition in the Offensive Weapons Act 2019. Although the Home Office responded to some parts of the request, it failed to issue a substantive response to two parts, despite the complainant asking that it do so. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office breached sections 1(1) (General right of access) and 10(1) (Time for compliance) by failing to respond to those two parts of the request. The Commissioner requires the Home Office to confirm or deny whether it holds information falling within scope of the requests reproduced in paragraph 5 of this decision notice. If held, any information must either be disclosed, or a valid non-disclosure exemption cited, with an appropriate supporting explanation for its application provided.