Information on model portfolio services (MPS) review - July 2026

• General right of access to information held by public authorities

Anyone making a request for information to a public authority is entitled to be told in writing by the public authority whether it holds the information the request describes. If the public authority does hold this information, the person requesting it has the right to have the information communicated to them. These rights, in section 1(1)(a) and (b) of FOIA, have some exclusions and exemptions.

• Section 40 (Personal Information)

Under section 40(2)(b) of FOIA, information that contains personal data of third-party individuals is exempt from disclosure if any one of three specified conditions is satisfied.

In this instance, we have applied this exemption because the first condition (as stated in section 40(3A) of FOIA) is satisfied. Some of the information you have requested comprises the personal data of individuals other than yourself, whose disclosure would breach one of the data protection principles.

In particular, we are of the view that disclosure would breach the first data protection Principle as set out in Article 5(1) of the UK GDPR that personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner, for the following reason:

The data subjects would not have had any reasonable expectation that this information would be disclosed into the public domain.