3 June 2015, Local government (District council)
The complainant has requested to know the number of people’s records being stored and/or processed outside of data protection policies in the Children’s and Social Care Service. Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council (the council) initially advised that it did not hold the information, but during the Commissioner’s investigations it considered section 12 of the FOIA was engaged because to retrieve and extract the information would exceed the appropriate limit. The Commissioner’s decision is that the council is able to rely on section 12 of the FOIA to refuse the request. The Commissioner does not require the council to take any steps.
FOI 12: Not upheld