Summary: The complainant requested complete copies of two contracts between the public authority and three companies in relation to the supply of bail accommodation and reducing re-offending rates of recently released prisoners. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the public authority was entitled to rely on section 14(2) FOIA in relation to the first part of the request for a copy of the contract between the public authority and Home Group Limited. In relation to the second part of the request, the public authority was not entitled to withhold all of the information redacted from the contract between the public authority, Social Impact Partnership LP and Social Finance Limited on the basis of sections 40(2) and 43(2) FOIA. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose all of the information described at paragraph 44 of this notice and disclose the names of the officials redacted from pages 19, 20, 46 and 47 of the contract between the public authority, Social Impact Partnership LP and Social Finance Limited.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 14 - Complaint Not upheld, FOI 40 - Complaint Partly Upheld, FOI 43 - Complaint Not upheld