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Friday, 25 October 2013

Odd response to FOI request asking for correspondence between Children's Commissioner and Immigration Minister

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/correspondence_regarding_childre#incoming-443672

We are considering your request.  Although the Act carries a presumption in favour of  disclosure, it provides exemptions which may be used to withhold information in specified  circumstances.  Some of these exemptions, referred to as ‘qualified exemptions’, are  subject to a public interest test.  This test is used to balance the public interest in  disclosure against the public interest in favour of withholding the information. The Act  allows us to exceed the 20 working day response target where we need to consider the  public interest test fully...

Also : http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/finally-childrens-commissioner-gets.html and links thereof.

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