Information can be withheld only if the public interest test is satisfied.As I said, there might be good reason to hold back from wide public disclosure of factual information, in order to allow local sensitivities to be taken into account, or to allow individuals who are affected by a decision to be informed first, as they should be. Committee members might recall that information was disclosed last December about the investigation into concerns about cancer among workers at the Greenock plant of National Semiconductor (UK) Ltd.