Secretary of State for the Home Department (Home Office)

The complainant has requested information regarding the Home Office’s cooperation with Turkey on upstream capacity building programmes for irregular migration. The Home Office relied on sections 27(4) (international relations) and 31(3) (law enforcement) of FOIA to neither confirm nor deny whether it holds the requested information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Home Office correctly relied on section 27(4) of FOIA to neither confirm nor deny holding the requested information. The Commissioner does not require the Home Office to take any further steps.