Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant made a number of requests for information to the public authority. Some of these requests were refused by virtue of section 14(1) (vexatious requests) and others were not answered. The Commissioner has been asked to consider eleven requests substantively and to consider the timeliness of two others. During the investigation, the Commissioner asked the public authority to issue a refusal notice in respect of the six requests that had not been answered. The public authority did so. The public authority has applied section 14(1) to all eleven of the requests under substantive consideration. The Commissioner has considered the arguments of both sides and has determined that section 14(1) has been applied correctly to each of those eleven requests. The Commissioner has also noted that the public authority has committed a number of procedural breaches of sections 10(1) and 17(5) in this case, but requires no further remedial action to be taken. Information Tribunal appeal number EA/2011/0076 dismissed.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 14 - Complaint Not upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld