| no | date
| Subject | Comment
| qno | col.
|
| 1 | 7.12
| Honours (Mr Peter Penfold)
| Department does not comment on honours issues
| 62341 | 35
|
| 2 | 14.12
| Sale of Properties |
Sale price and reserve price of departmental properties withheld as commercially sensitive; and see 14.1 [65683] for refusal to supply details of price and other terms in transactions and 22.3 [78033] for justification of refusal.
| 63819 | 403
|
| 3 | 1.2
| Departmental Legislation
| Convention that legislative proposals for each year are not announced before the Queen's Speech at the start of the relevant Session
| 68417 | 495
|
| 4 | 16.3
| Communications:Telegrams to posts(Sierra Leone)
| Telegrams to posts referred to confidential; and see 26.7 [92941] (messages from ambassadors— although part of message quoted)
| 77173 | 616
|
| | 24.3
| Governor or Ambassador(Gibraltar)
| Not practice to give details of confidential exchanges between Foreign and Commonwealth Office and any Governor or Ambassador; nor of operational instructions to Royal Gibraltar Police
| 78352 | 297
|
| | 20.4
| Foreign Governments
(Papua New Guinea)
| Not practice to reveal the substance of confidential discussions with foreign governments: and see 10.5 [83468], 14.5 [84223] (information received in confidence - withheld under Exemption 1(c) of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information ) 15.6 [86457] (with foreign authorities) 29.6 [88331] (with Russian Government - withheld under Exemption 1(c) of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information )
| 80878 | 511
|
| 5 | 26.2
| Intelligence matters
Technology Export Curbs
(Russia)
| Intelligence constraints prevent naming institutions suspected of involvement in technology leakage
| 73253 | 491
|
| | 22.6
| FCO Establishment
(Morwenstow)
| Policy not to give details of operations of security and intelligence services; and see 30.6 [88637] (policy not to give details of staffing and organisation of intelligence services - withheld under Exemption 1 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information)
| 87601 | 360
|
| | 26.4
| Intelligence material(International War Crimes Tribunal)
| Not practice to publish intelligence material, even though given to International War Crimes Tribunal
| 81942 | 34
|
| | 15.7
| Espionage (Russia) |
Policy not to comment on intelligence matters; and see 26.10 [95569]; 1.11 [96547; 96548] (long-standing practice not to respond to speculation on alleged intelligence operations)
| 89609 | 287
|
| 6 | 9.3
| Common Foreign and Security Policy
| No discretion unilaterally to disclose reports of CFSP working groups which reveal negotiating position of other European states
| 75081 | 179
|
| 7 | 24.3
| Party discussions
(Pauline Green)
| Not practice to give details of party political discussions
| 78397 | 300
|
| 8 | 29.4
| US-British-Russian Trilateral Agreement
| Names and locations of places visited withheld under the terms of the Trilateral Agreement and Exemption 13 of the Code on Access to Government Information, which covers third party commercial information given in confidence; and 29.4 [82249]
| 82250 | 263
|
| 9 | 26.4
| Job applications
(Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police)
| Names of candidates for post of Deputy Commissioner applying to Department of International Development confidential
| 81852 | 36
|
| 10 | 2.7
| Ministerial travel |
Not policy for security and other reasons to disclose routes taken by ministers
| 89028 | 315
|
| 11 | 15.7
| Non-proliferation policy
| Assessments on which non-proliferation policy is based withheld under Exemption 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information
| 91247 | 290
|
| 12 | 23.7
| Kidnap cases | Department does not comment on operational aspects of kidnap cases
| 92301 | 727
|
| 13 | 27.7
| European Commission staff
| For reasons of personal confidentiality the Commission does not publish details of secondary employment of staff below the level of Commissioner
| 92033 | 373
|
| 14 | 27.7
| Security clearance |
Not normal practice to comment on the security clearance of individuals
| 93056 | 375
|
| 15 | 1.11
| Contingency plans |
Not policy to discuss individual contingency plans
| 96494 | 32
|
