Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government why they used the section 21 Freedom of Information Act 2000 exemption in their 27 May response to a request relating to optimism bias in the costing of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre (FOI 17451012); and where the information requested is already available on the (1) percentage allowance for optimism bias, (2) category of project, (3) mitigation factor, and (4) optimism bias factor.

We received a request for information which precisely matched a parliamentary question. The answer to the parliamentary question is publicly available (attached) https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-10-15/56726.