Information Commissioner's Office

Network Rail

2 March 2016, Education (Other)

The complainant made a request to Network Rail for various pieces of information about the Royal Train. Network Rail disclosed some of the requested information and said that some of the information was not held. It also said that other information was being withheld under the exemptions in section 24 (National Security), section 31 (Law enforcement), section 38 (Health and Safety) and section 43 (commercial interests). The Commissioner has considered the complaint and found that the section 24 and section 43 exemptions were correctly applied and that the public interest in maintaining each exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosure. The Commissioner did not consider the application of section 31 or section 38 as he is satisfied that any information withheld under these exemptions is exempt on the basis of section 24. The Commissioner also found that Network Rail breached section 10(1) of FOIA in its handling of the request but requires no steps to be taken.

FOI 10: Upheld FOI 24: Not upheld FOI 43: Not upheld