Information Commissioner's Office

Birmingham CrossCity Clinical Commissioning Group

4 August 2016, Health (NHS)

The complainant made a request to the CCG for its recruitment and selection policy and information relating to the ethnic breakdown and qualifications of staff on the Quality & Safety Team broken down by job grade and job role/title. The complainant also asked for an ethnic breakdown and qualification information of shortlisted candidates for a role on that team.  The CCG provided all of the requested information but refused to provide the job role/title of staff on the Quality and Safety team as it did provide the ethnic breakdown, qualification information and job grade of staff on that team. It considers that the job role/title information alongside the information it did provide was exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the CCG has correctly applied section 40(2) FOIA in this case. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken.

FOI 40: Not upheld