On 22/12/2011 19:44, John Roberts wrote:
Evening all
I wonder what people think - does this stand a chance? How will the
Cabinet Office deal with this?
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sir_gus_odonnell_jeremy_heywood
I predict that it will be refused, on DPA and/or cost grounds. The
sender/recipient lines will identify individuals. As a general rule,
emails released under FOI either are purely internal, or have
identifiers of external senders/recipients redacted. The content of
several individual emails will themselves be subject to DPA if they
refer to identifiable individuals. And redacting a lot of emails will
certainly be somthing that the cost can be applied to.
On a more general note, I think this kind of fishing expedition is
precisely the sort of thing that brings FOI into disrepute and increases
the probability of legislative changes to further restrict its scope.
Mark
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