Information Commissioner's Office

Certification Office

26 February 2015, Other

The complainant has requested information held by the Certification Office in respect of a complaint which the complainant made to the Certification Office concerning a payment by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to its former General Secretary.  After some confusion about the terms of its initial response, the Certification Office withheld the information in its entirety on the basis of Section 30(1)(b). The Commissioner’s decision is that the Certification Office was entitled to rely on Section 30(1)(b) to withhold some of the requested information.  However, the Commissioner finds that the public interest balance favours disclosure of the identified non-sensitive parts of the withheld information.  

FOI 30: Partly upheld