Mr. Bill Callanan:

Let me explain.

I assume that in that case it is an interpretation of what we legally should or should not do. We are very much bound by the requirement on access to environmental information and we do not fight it. We generally have to adjudicate, though, on whether we have legal authority to release or not. That would be the logic applied. As the likes of a commissioner makes adjudications, the legal knowledge increases and therefore facilitates further decisions. Let us call a spade a spade: the Civil Service works off precedent in terms of awareness. We cannot afford to be non-compliant legally in terms of access to information. Somebody obviously made an adjudication as to whether this should be released, based on best advice. As a consequence of adjudication subsequent to that, we now have case law on what goes out and what does not. We do not fight our legislative requirements; we just have to interpret whether something is right or wrong. Somebody made a call here and that has now been rescinded. We will fully comply.