19 October 2016, Local government (Other)
The complainant has requested information relating to a workshop organised by the ICO to gather views on the implications of the new EU directive on data protection. The ICO provided some information and denied holding other information. Although it provided a list of the organisations invited to send a representative, the ICO withheld the actual names of those invited to attend under regulation 40(2) – personal information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the ICO has correctly withheld the names of those invited under section 40(2). The Commissioner does not require the ICO to take any further action in this matter.
FOI 40: Not upheld