Responses to consultation on Gender Recognition Act reform: FOI release

Information requested

All information the government holds regarding its decision not to publish consultation responses to the GRA Bill consultation which ran from December 2019 and March 2020. 

Response

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An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested, because it is personal data of a third party, in that it consists of personal information that may identify an individual and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

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FOI - 202100231650 - Information released

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38 page PDF

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