Correspondence between ABSG and OHID
Request
Please can you share with me all correspondence between the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling (the 'ABSG'), the Gambling Commission and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities in August and September 2022? This should include (but not be limited to) the correspondence referred to (and contained within) the ABSG Report from September 2022, which states: "I have written to OHID, summarising our position on the issue and shared this with GC colleagues (see Appendix). DHSC are carrying out their own independent quality assurance on the risk calculations, and will publish these later this year."
Response
Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
In your email you have requested:
Please can you share with me all correspondence between the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling (the 'ABSG'), the Gambling Commission and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities in August and September 2022? This should include (but not be limited to) the correspondence referred to (and contained within) the ABSG Report from September 2022, which states: "I have written to OHID, summarising our position on the issue and shared this with GC colleagues(see Appendix). DHSC are carrying out their own independent quality assurance on the risk calculations, and will publish these later this year."
To identify the information requested, we performed a search of our email system for any correspondence directly between ABSG, the Gambling Commission and OHID for the period 1 August 2022 to 30 September 2022.
Please see the attached information held by the Gambling Commission falling within the scope of your request. Please note personal information relating to identifiable individuals has been redacted from the attached document.
The Data Protection Act 2018 requires the processing of personal data to be fair and lawful. The Commission considers that it would be disproportionate for us to publicly disclose the personal data of certain individuals contained within these documents as there is no strong public interest in doing so. There is no legitimate expectation that the personal information of these individuals will be disclosed in the context in which it is held.
On balance, there is no legitimate public interest in disclosing this information and it would not be fair to do so.
This information is therefore exempt under section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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