8 February 2017, Central government
The complainant has requested information from the Department for Education (“DfE”) for information about the performance of Regional Schools Commissioners against their Key Performance Indicators. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DfE did not deal with the request for information in accordance with the FOIA in the following way: it failed to provide a response to the request within the statutory timeframe of 20 working days as set out in section 10 of the FOIA. As a response has now been provided, the Commissioner requires the DfE to take no steps.
FOI 10: Upheld