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Department for Education (Decision Notice) [2012] UKICO FS50434631 (02 April 2012)
Summary: The complainant has requested details of the measures in place to retain data relating to the work of the Department for Education (the -DfE-) from the private email accounts of its employees, including civil servants and special advisors, who subsequently leave the DfE. The complainant has not received a substantive response to this request. The Commissioner-s decision is that the DfE has breached section 10(1) of the FOIA by failing to respond to the complainant-s request promptly or at all within 20 working days. The Commissioner requires the DfE to state which information it holds within the scope of the complainant-s request and to communicate the information it holds to the complainant and/or issue a refusal notice in respect of all or the parts of the information it intends to withhold in accordance with section 17 of the FOIA.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld