Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant has requested information relating to -�The Road Worker Safety Action Forum-� from April 2007 until April 2012 inclusive. The Highways Agency provided some information to the complainant. It withheld 15 documents under section 36(2)(b)(ii) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. It said that section 40(2) FOIA was also applicable to some of the information contained in those documents. It made a redaction to some of the information it disclosed under section 35(1)(a). During the course of the Commissioner-�s investigation it withdrew the application of section 35(1)(a) FOIA and confirmed that the information redacted could now be disclosed. The Commissioner-�s decision is that the Highways Agency has correctly applied section 36(2)(b)(ii) FOIA in this case. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the information which was originally redacted under section 35(1)(a) FOIA as the Highways Agency has confirmed that this exemption is no longer applicable.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 35 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 36 - Complaint Not upheld