Nic's convo with the ICO seems a reasonable position - otherwise internal candidates for jobs (as opposed to promotions, as in this case) in the organisation would perversely end up with less of a right of subject access than external ones.
Putting an interpretational hat on for a moment - looking at the wording of the exemption, the language may be readable in different ways: that is, the language of parts b) and c) of the exemption seem to suggest the exemption may be looking at beginning a relationship with the data subject from scratch (appointing to a post, provision of a service). If this is the case, and the same 'starting point view' is applied to part a), are we actually considering a 'reference' as recognised by the DPA or are we looking at something more akin to an appraisal documented, as has been suggested elsewhere here?
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