9 October 2017, Other
The complainant has requested information about a pay review and to date he has not received a response. The Information Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority has failed to provide a response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days and has therefore beached section 10(1) of the FOIA. The public authority must now issue a response to the request under FOIA. 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 Information 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 10: Upheld