Summary: The complainant made a request to the Financial Services Authority (-FSA-) for any information it may hold in relation to financial recoveries made by the Receivers who had been appointed to a company in which the complainant had a substantial financial interest and was also the company Chairman. The complainant had made three previous requests between March 2008 and January 2010 in respect of matters broadly connected with this latest request and 3 additional requests for similar information had been made by two separate Members of Parliament. The FSA advised the complainant that it would not respond to the latest request as it dealt with substantially the same issues as the previous requests and was both vexatious under section 14(1) of the FOIA and repeated under section 14(2) of the FOIA. The Commissioner-s decision is that the FSA has correctly applied section 14(1) and (2) to the request. There are no further steps to be taken.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 14 - Complaint Not upheld