Baroness Walmsley – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Walmsley on 2015-11-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they define commercial confidentiality” and “exceptional circumstances” in relation to restrictions on FOI requests relating to private companies that provide public services.”
Lord Bridges of Headley
Requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are considered on a case by case basis. Section 43 of the Act sets out the circumstances in which information is exempt from disclosure on grounds of commercial interests.
