Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

The complainant has requested their personal information. The Department for Work and Pensions (“the DWP”) refused to disclose the requested information under section 40(1) of FOIA on the basis that it is the complainant’s own personal data. 
The Commissioner’s decision is that DWP should have relied on section 40(5)(b) to neither confirm nor deny holding the requested information.
The Commissioner does not require further steps.