15 January 2015, Central government
The complainant requested information, including requests made on 12 May 2014 and 21 May 2014, about restrictions on reading materials in prisons. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) aggregated the requests and advised that to comply with them would exceed the appropriate limit. The Commissioner’s decision is that MoJ was correct to aggregate the requests and that it was entitled to rely on section 12(1) (cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit). He requires no steps to be taken.
FOI 12: Not upheld