22Cabinet information and proceedings

22 Cabinet information and proceedings

22 Cabinet information and proceedings

(1) This Act does not enable the Ombudsman—

(a) to require any person—

(i) to give any statement of information,

(ii) to produce any document or other thing,

(iii) to give a copy of any document, or

(iv) to answer any question,

which relates to information that is Cabinet information under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 or to confidential proceedings of Cabinet or any committee of Cabinet, or

(b) to inspect any document or thing which so relates.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a certificate of the Secretary or General Counsel of the Cabinet Office that—

(a) information is Cabinet information under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009, or

(b) any information, document, thing or question relates to confidential proceedings of Cabinet or of a committee of Cabinet,

is conclusive of that fact.

s 22: Am 1983 No 189, Sch 2 (6); 1989 No 226, Sch 1; 1993 No 37, Sch 1 (4); 2009 No 54, Sch 2.33 [2] [3]; 2015 No 58, Sch 3.66 [1]; 2023 No 35, Sch 4.30.