Information Commissioner's Office

Anglia Ruskin University

26 June 2017, Education (University)

The complainant made a multiple part request for information relating to various aspects of the University’s academic delivery and relationship with its students. The University provided the complainant with some of the requested information, however in respect of one part of the request (part 4) the complainant considered it had not provided all information held within the scope of the request. In respect of five parts of the request (parts 5 and 9-12) the University informed the complainant that it did not hold the requested information. The University also refused to respond to one part of the request (part 6), citing section 12 of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that in respect of part 4 of the request the University holds no further information within the scope of the request which has not already been provided to the complainant, and in respect of part 5 the University does not hold the requested information. In respect of parts 9-12 of the request the Commissioner finds that the University holds information within the scope of the request, however to the extent to which it constitutes the personal data of the complainant it is exempt by virtue of section 40(1) of the FOIA, and in relation to information which does not constitute the complainant’s personal data the University has provided the complainant with all information held within the scope of the request. In respect of the University’s application of section 12 of the FOIA to part 6 of the request, the Commissioner finds that the University was correct in refusing the request. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken.

FOI 1: Partly upheld FOI 12: Not upheld