Information Commissioner's Office

Bolton College

6 July 2017, Education (College)

The complainant submitted a request to the public authority for a copy of two due diligence reports produced pursuant to the proposed merger of the public authority, Bury College, and the University of Bolton. The public authority withheld the reports in reliance on the exemptions contained at sections 41(1), 42(1) and 43(2) FOIA. The Commissioner has concluded that the public authority was entitled to withhold the reports on the basis of the exemption contained at section 43(2) FOIA.

FOI 43(2): Not upheld