Information Commissioner's Office

Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale

18 July 2017, Education (School)

The complainant has requested information from Queen Elizabeth School (“QES”) regarding an arrangement between a member of QES’s governing body and a nearby primary school for the individual to assist the nearby school with a building project. QES did not provide the complainant with any recorded information until the Commissioner commenced her investigation. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, QES has now provided the complainant with all of the information which it holds falling within the scope of the requests. However, she finds that QES has breached the FOIA in the following ways: within the statutory time-frame of 20 working days, it failed to confirm or deny whether information was held falling within the scope of the requests, and failed to provide the information which it did hold. Accordingly QES has breached sections 1(1)(a), 1(1)(b) and 10 of the FOIA respectively. The Commissioner does not require QES to take any steps .

FOI 10: Upheld FOI 1: Upheld