Information Commissioner's Office

Office of the Traffic Commissioner

11 August 2014, Central government

The complainant has requested various pieces of information and correspondence relating to several bus companies and individuals, all based in Scotland. The Office of the Traffic Commissioner (OTC) answered each part of the request stating that either information was not held, it would exceed the appropriate cost limit to respond or the information constituted third party personal data so was exempt form disclosure (section 40(2)). The Commissioner considers 5 of the 7 requests could be aggregated and that the appropriate cost limit would be exceeded by responding, therefore section 12 was correctly applied. For the remaining two requests, the Commissioner is satisfied the information is not held.

FOI 1: Not upheld FOI 12: Not upheld