Information Commissioner's Office

Oxfordshire County Council

1 August 2016, Local government (County council)

The complainant has requested all emails that contained the word “Moats”. Oxfordshire County Council disclosed information. The complainant explained that as Oxfordshire County Council initially stated that it had disclosed all of the requested information but during the internal review found another draft email, he does not believe it has disclosed everything to him. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, Oxfordshire County Council does not hold any further information. He therefore does not consider that there has been a breach of regulation 12(4)(a) (Information held at the time of a request) or regulation 11 (Representations and reconsideration) of the EIR. However, he does consider that Oxfordshire County Council has breached regulations 3 (Application) and 5 (Duty to make available environmental information on request) of the EIR. The Commissioner does not require Oxfordshire City Council to take any steps as a result of this decision.

EIR 3: Upheld EIR 5: Upheld EIR 11: Not upheld EIR 12(4)(a): Not upheld