Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant made a three part information request to the Council. The first part contained eight sections which were identical with the first eight parts of an earlier 15 part request; the second request was for sight of a correspondence file; and, the third request was for separate accounting files. The Commissioner decided that: the first information request was incorrectly refused relying on section 14(2) of the Act and that the section 21(1) exemption was incorrectly applied to the first request; the Council breached section 1(1)(b) of the Act in relation to the first information request; the second information request was neither refused nor satisfied he therefore required the Council to reconsider the second request afresh, and the Council correctly refused the third information request relying on section 21(1) of the Act. He also decided that the Council had breached section 17(1) of the Act.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 14 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 21 - Complaint Partly Upheld