Summary: The complainant requested information about the licensing arrangements between High Peak Borough Council (the council) and Nestle/ Buxton Mineral Water Company Limited (the company) for the extraction for sale of natural mineral water from springs at Buxton. The council provided some information but withheld other information including part of the text of its agreement with the company (the agreement) relying on the section 43(2) FOIA exemption. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the council has correctly applied the exemption at section 43(2) FOIA and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosure. The Commissioner does not require the council to take any steps.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 43 - Complaint Not upheld