Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

The complainant submitted seven Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) requests to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) on the same day. DCMS refused all seven requests under section 14(1) of FOIA on the basis that they were vexatious.The Commissioner’s decision is that DCMS has not demonstrated that complying with the requests would impose a grossly oppressive burden. Assertions of burden were not supported with meaningful evidence or quantification.