Summary: The complainant requested information about costs and income over a three-year period for the London Borough of Enfield-™s Education Lettings Service. The public authority responded and withheld some of the information under the exemption for commercial interests. The complainant made further submissions, to which the London Borough of Enfield (the -˜Council-™) responded. It later applied the personal data exemption to the complainant-™s subsequent request for information about a monetary sum in the information provided. With the exception of disclosing further details about the monetary sum, and the breakdown for individual schools withheld under the exemption for commercial interests, the Information Commissioner finds that the Council had provided all the requested information prior to the Information Commissioner-™s involvement. It is not required to take any steps. The Information Commissioner has also decided that while the initial response was provided within the statutory 20 working days-™ time limit, the Council failed to respond to part of the complainant-™s later request within the required timeframe in breach of section 10(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the -˜FOIA-™). The Council must ensure that this delay is not repeated in the future.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld