120 annual report 2012 the information had been obtained during a confidential dialogue between the embassy in Riyadh and the Royal Household of Bahrain. However, the Ombudsman did not have sufficient grounds for criticising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ applying section 13(1)(vi) to the correspondence in question in the case. T. MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND THE INTERIOR No cases concluded in 2012 were selected for publication in the Annual Report. U. LOCAL AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES The following cases concluded in 2012 were selected for publication in the Annual Report: 2012-1. Issuing of school books on non-return of old books. Payment for lost school books A parent complained to the Ombudsman that his son’s school had refused to issue new school books to pupils – including his son – who had not returned their old school books. He also complained that the school had demanded payment for a book which his son had not returned. The Ombudsman took as his basis that the school had not issued school books for the new school year until school books from the old year had either been returned or paid for or a dialogue between the school and the parents in question had been initiated. The Ombudsman asked the local authority and the Ministry of Education (now the Ministry of Children and Education) for statements. The Ministry stated that the local authority has an obligation to make the necessary educational materials available, also to pupils who have not returned educational materials which have previously been made available to them. The