Derek McDowell (Labour)

As I understand it, this section deals with requests where some information is disclosed and part of it is withheld in circumstances where it is neither confirmed nor denied that the latter is the case. It would seem to make matters more difficult in circumstances where part of the information is being disclosed. Is the requester also told there may or may not be additional information which is not being given? If not, it is clearly not possible to apply the public interest test to the information, the very existence of which is not being disclosed.