Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office FCDO (previously FCO)

The complainant submitted two requests to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) concerning The Centre for Information Resilience. The FCDO aggregated the cost of complying with the requests under section 12(4) of FOIA and refused both of them on the basis of section 12(1) (cost limit) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the FCDO is entitled to aggregate the cost of complying with the requests and that cost of complying with them would exceed the appropriate cost limit. It can therefore rely on section 12(1) to refuse the requests.