Crown Prosecution Service

The complainant has requested information about the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) decision not to prosecute a named individual. The CPS would neither confirm nor deny whether it held the requested information, citing section 40(5) (Personal information) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the CPS was entitled to apply section 40(5B)(a)(i) of FOIA to neither confirm nor deny whether it held the requested information.