13 July 2017, Education (University)
The complainant has requested information from Royal Holloway, University of London (“the University”) regarding its decision-making process when individuals were nominated to the Academic Board in 2014. The Commissioner’s decision is that the University does not hold any recorded information falling within the scope of the request for information. However, it did not deal with the request in accordance with the FOIA in the following ways: it failed to confirm or deny whether it held information of the description specified in the request, in accordance with section 1(1)(a) of the FOIA, and it failed to provide a response to the request within the statutory timeframe of 20 working days, in accordance with section 10 of the FOIA. The Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any steps.
FOI 1: Upheld FOI 10: Upheld