Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office FCDO (previously FCO)

The complainant has requested information about a near relative’s role with MI6 during the Second World War. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (“the public authority”) relies on section 23(5) (Information supplied by, or relating to, security bodies) to neither confirm or deny that it held the requested information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority was entitled to rely on section 23(5) to neither confirm or deny that it held the requested information. The Commissioner does not require steps to be taken.