Information Commissioner's Office

Commission for Equality and Human Rights

26 September 2017, Central government

The complainant has requested information relating to Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (the EHRC) reasonable adjustments for disabled clients and section 28 of the Equality Act. The Commissioner’s decision is that the EHRC has correctly applied section 40(2) (third party personal data) to the information withheld in part a) of the request. She further finds that EHRC does not hold the information requested at part b) of the request. The Commissioner requires the public authority to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. Provide the information identified during the Commissioner’s investigation, that is, the Outlook calendar entry, if it has not already done so, that is, the outlook appointment entry. The public authority must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice. Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of the Act and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.

FOI 40: Not upheld FOI 1: Not upheld