Bona Vacantia Business Cases

Summary

The request sought business cases funded by the Bona Vacantia Fund over the last five years. The Treasury disclosed five specific business cases but redacted personal information under absolute exemption.

Key Facts

• The request was received on 2021-05-26 and responded to on 2021-07-08.
• Five business cases were released covering recipients such as Family Library and the Live at Home Scheme.
• Information was withheld due to the presence of personal data not belonging to the requester.
• The exemption applied is Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Act 2015.
• The response references compliance with the Data Protection (Application of GDPR) Order 2018.

Data Disclosed

• 2021-05-26
• 2021-07-08
• 1809801
• 28 June 2017
• 30 August 2017
• 31 May 2018
• 24 October 2018
• 7 November 2018
• 24
• 10
• 2
• 3
• 28
• Section 25
• Article 5
• Article 6

Exemptions Cited

• Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Act 2015 (absolutely exempt personal information)
• Data Protection (Application of GDPR) Order 2018 (Article 5 and Article 6)

Original Request

The business cases which attracted funding from the Bona Vacantia Fund.

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Freedom of Information Seyrsnys Fysseree

The Treasury Government Office, Douglas Isle of Man, IM1 3PU

Telephone: (01624) 685605 Email: FOI.Treasury@gov.im

Government Website: www.gov.im

Our ref: 1809801 8 July 2021

Dear ###

Thank you for your request dated 26th May, which asked for the disclosure of - The business cases which attracted funding from the Bona Vacantia Fund Thank you for the clarification you subsequently provided that you were interested in business cases relating to funding approved over the last 5 years. I enclose with this response the following business cases – Appendix Business Case source/date Recipient Number of pages A Treasury Paper 379/17 28 June 2017 Family Library 24 (pg 1-24) B Treasury Paper 463/17 30 August 2017 Year of Our Island 10 (pg 25-34) C Ministerial Decision 27/18 31 May 2018 WWI Commemorative Coin 2 (pg 35-36) D Treasury Paper 592/18 24 October 2018 Live at Home Scheme 3 (pg37-39) E Treasury Paper 611/18 7 November 2018 Arts, Culture Creativity Projects 28 (pg 40-67) While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance some of the information contained in the business cases is absolutely exempt from disclosure under section 25 of the Act (absolutely exempt personal information). The reasons why that exemption applies are that - • The Treasury is satisfied that the information amounts to personal data of which you are not the data subject; and • The Treasury is satisfied that disclosure of the information would contravene one of the data protection principles as set out at Article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation as it applies in the Isle of Man pursuant to the Data

Protection (Application of GDPR) Order 2018, namely that the Treasury can only disclose the information where it would be fair, lawful and meet one of the conditions for lawful processing in Article 6 and in this case, none of those conditions have been met. The information to which this exemption applies has been redacted from the information disclosed to you in this response.

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