Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

The complainant has requested information about the release of individuals under the Early Release Scheme to a particular area of Middlesbrough. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) argued that the requested information was not held for the purposes of FOIA because it did not currently exist in recorded form and could not be retrieved without creating new information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the MoJ was entitled to refuse the request on the basis that the information is not held by it for the purposes of FOIA.