Home Office 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
[email protected] www.homeoffice.gov.uk Stephen Delahunty
[email protected] FOI: 55307 29 October 2019 Dear Mr Delahunty Thank you for your e-mail of 2 September 2019 , in which you specifically request: - all digital and physical correspondence between anyone employed in, or subcontracted to, the department's Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) and employees or representatives of Horizon PR in June 2017. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In relation to these questions, I am able to disclose some of the information that you have requested, which can be viewed in Annex B. Other information relating to your request is being withheld at this time as it is exempt from disclosure by virtue of Section 24(1) (National Security). Please find further details of this exemption in Annex A. Furthermore, the Home Office has obligations under data protection legislation and in law generally to protect personal data. We have concluded that some of the information that you have requested is also exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) (personal information) of the FOI Act, because of the condition at section 40(3A)(a). This exempts personal data if disclosure would contravene any of the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to
[email protected], quoting reference 55307.