Information Commissioner's Office

Network Rail

22 February 2017, Education (Other)

The complainant has requested information on CCTV and surveillance techniques employed at Edinburgh Waverley train station. Network Rail provided some information as requested but refused to confirm the number of CCTV cameras at the station on the basis of sections 24(1), 31(1)(a) and (b) and 38(1) as well as refusing to confirm or deny if information was held for three other parts of the request by virtue of the exclusions at section 24(2), 31(3) and 38(2) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that Network Rail has correctly applied section 24(1) to part 1 of the request and section 24(2) to parts 5, 6a and 7 and the public interest in both cases favours maintaining the exemption. She requires no steps to be taken.

FOI 24: Not upheld