5 February 2007, Education (Other)
The complainant requested details of compensation payments made to residents of a specific road under the Land Compensation Act following the building of the A12 Hackney M11 Link Road. The public authority confirmed to the complainant the number of compensation offers that had been accepted by residents but refused to disclose details of the size of compensation payments made to each resident on the basis of the exemptions contained at section 40 and 43. The Commissioner’s decision is to uphold the public authority’s application of 40(2) to withhold the information. As the Commissioner is satisfied that the section 40(2) has been applied correctly, he has not considered the public authority’s decision to apply section 43.
FOI 40: Not upheld