Summary: The complainant has requested information about the expenses of the Parish Council Clerk (the -Clerk-). Widdrington Village Parish Council (-the Council-) provided some information to the complainant, it withheld some information under section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and it confirmed that some of the information requested was not held. The Commissioner-s decision is that the Council has now provided all information held which falls within the scope of the request apart from the information withheld under section 40(2) FOIA. The Commissioner considers that section 40(2) FOIA was incorrectly applied to part 5 of the request but was correctly applied to part 9 of the request. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the information requested at part 5 of the request.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 40 - Complaint Partly Upheld