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• Song Name: FOI Podcast No:21
• Artist: Ibrahim Hasan
• Album: www.informationlaw.org.uk
• Year: 2010

This is episode 21 of the UKs only Freedom of Information podcast.

In the three months up to the end of January 2010 the Information Commissioner published 154 decisions whilst the Information Tribunal published 17. Ibrahim is here to guide you through some of these.

In this episode, amongst others, we will be discussing decisions involving:

• Redaction costs when dealing with FOI requests
• Another use of the ministerial veto
• Section 36 and the opinion of the qualified person
• The tax status of a conservative peer
• Disclosure of information about the deceased
• When the Breach of Confidence exemption can be invoked
• AND disclosure of commercially sensitive information