Residence Workplace’s Response to Gatwick Drone FOI – sUAS Information

Expensive Requester,

Thanks in your e-mail of 23 October 2024, wherein you request copies of the emails disclosed within the Freedom of Data Act request FOI2024/04564.

You particularly ask:

In FOIA FOI2024/04564 a small variety of e-mails had been recognized, I’d like copies of these, I realise some redactions could also be needed. Word the DfT put it into the general public area that the Residence Secretary accepted the usage of the Night time Fighter jammer (on this FOIA: Gatwick “drone” associated emails – a Freedom of Data request to Division for Transport – WhatDoTheyKnow) in order that doesn’t want
redacting if it’s coated inside this batch.

Your request has been dealt with as a request for data below the Freedom of Data Act 2000.

In relation to your request above, we are able to affirm that the Residence Workplace holds a few of the data that you’ve got requested, and we’ve got disclosed this under. We’ve redacted sure data as that is exempt from disclosure by advantage of the exemptions listed below Sections 23 (Data provided by, or referring to, our bodies coping with safety issues), 24 (Nationwide Safety), 31 (Regulation Enforcement) 38 (Well being and Security), 40 (Private Data) of the Freedom of Data Act 2000.

In relation to the e-mail “Fwd: 20181220 – Residence Secretary and Transport Secretary Name:

Gatwick Drone Incident 21/12/2018 07:36”, we’ve got carried out a radical search and we’ve got established that the Residence Workplace doesn’t maintain the data which you may have requested.

In our preliminary response to FOI2024/04564, we recognized the e-mail title, time and date of every e mail obtained. The search didn’t get better the physique of the e-mail, solely the particular data requested within the Freedom of Data Request. Following your present request FOI: 2024/08785, we performed a radical search of related mailboxes and shared drives however sadly the physique of this explicit e mail couldn’t be discovered.

Regrettably, due to this fact, we’ve got concluded that this particular data will not be held. Data has been withheld below part 40(2) of the FOIA due to the situation at part 40(3A)(a) the place this considerations the private knowledge of third events. The Residence Workplace has obligations below knowledge safety laws and in regulation usually to guard private knowledge. This exempts private knowledge from launch if disclosure would contravene any of the information safety rules in Article 5(1) of the UK Common Information Safety Regulation and part 34(1) of the Information Safety Act 2018. We consider launch would breach the primary knowledge safety precept, since it could be illegal and unfair to reveal the data.

Part 40 of the Act is an absolute exemption and never topic to the general public curiosity check.

Within the circumstances of this case, it isn’t acceptable to supply any data that was both provided by, or pertains to, one of many safety our bodies listed in part 23(3) of the FOIA.

We’re due to this fact making use of sections 23(1) (data provided by or referring to safety our bodies) to a part of your request. Because the exemption at part 23(1) is an absolute exemption, no proof of hurt or evaluation of the steadiness of the general public curiosity is required to help its utility.

Please discover additional particulars of those exemptions within the Annex to this letter. Refer under Annex for supporting particulars:

ANNEX: Exemptions Used
Part 23 Data provided by, or referring to, our bodies coping with safety issues
Part 24 Nationwide Safety
Part 31 Regulation Enforcement
Part 38 Well being and Security
Part 40 Private Data
ANNEX: Public Curiosity Take a look at (PIT)
Sections 24, 31 and 38 of the Act are certified exemptions and require consideration of the general public curiosity check. We’ve concluded the general public curiosity lies in favour of withholding the data. The arguments we thought-about, each for and towards disclosure, are set out within the Annex.

ANNEX: Authentic Request
ANNEX: Disclosed Data

In case you are dissatisfied with this response you could request an impartial inner overview of our dealing with of your request by submitting a criticism inside two months to [email protected], quoting reference 2024/08785.

Should you ask for an inner overview, it could be useful in case you may say why you might be dissatisfied with the response.

As a part of any inner overview the Division’s dealing with of your data request might be reassessed by workers who weren’t concerned in offering you with this response. Should you stay dissatisfied after this inner overview, you’ll have a proper of criticism to the Data Commissioner as established by part 50 of the Freedom of Data Act.

Yours sincerely
Freedom of Data
Residence Workplace

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