Information Commissioner's Office

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

23 March 2017, Local government (District council)

The complainant has requested a variety of recorded information which relates to the Kirklees Metropolitan Council’s relationship with Kirklees Active Leisure. The Council has provided the complainant with much of the information he seeks, including references to locations on the Council’s website where relevant information can be readily accessed. Notwithstanding its disclosure of information, the Council has withheld two paragraphs of a report made to its Cabinet on 8 November 2011, entitled ‘Kirklees Sport and Leisure Facility Management – Options Appraisal and Update on Renewal Process’. The Council has relied on section 42 of the FOIA to withhold these paragraphs, on the grounds that the information they contain attracts legal professional privilege. The Commissioner’s decision is that Kirklees Metropolitan Council has properly applied section 42 to the withheld information.

FOI 42: Not upheld