Derek McDowell (Labour)

While it would be reasonable for the actual operation of the authority to be subject to the FOI Act, if files dealing with individual cases were to be accessible under it this would run counter to the section and it clearly is not intended now. This is a difficult Chinese wall to define, but I thought we could try to elucidate it in some way. Individual cases, in so far as it is intended to keep them confidential, are confidential, but the actual operation of the office, as far as I understand it, is outside the FOI Act.