The complainant submitted three requests to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) seeking information about contracts awarded to the company IN2. The FCO confirmed that it had awarded two contracts to the company and provided details of the payments made to it. However, it explained that it considered the further information about the contracts sought by the complainant to be exempt from disclosure on the basis of section 24(1) (national security) and 38(1)(b) (health and safety) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the names of the contracts, a brief description of them, and details of where they took place, including a breakdown of the regions by contract, is information which is all exempt from disclosure on the basis of section 24(1) of FOIA. However, the Commissioner has concluded that the contracts’ award, start and end dates, and the individual value of each contract is information which is not exempt from disclosure on the basis of either section 24(1) or 38(1)(b) of FOIA.
FOI 24: Complaint partly upheld FOI 38: Complaint partly upheld
Citations:
[2020] UKICO IC-47551-M2K1-IC-
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
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Updated: 11 August 2022; Ref: scu.656043
