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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Information Commissioner's Office >> Invest Northern Ireland (Local government) [2020] UKICO fs50864406 (3 February 2020)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2020/fs50864406.html
Cite as: [2020] UKICO fs50864406
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Invest Northern Ireland
The complainant has requested Invest Northern Ireland (INI) to disclose information relating to application submitted by N3uroPro Limited for participation in the Propel initiative, information relating to the decision to award a place on the scheme to one of the directors of this company under the company named G Science Ltd and all correspondence relating to this matter between certain named individuals. INI confirmed that some of the requested information is not held. In relation to the recorded information that is held, it disclosed some of this to the complainant and informed the complainant that the remainder is exempt from disclosure under sections 40(2) and 43 of the FOIA. The complainant required the Commissioner to consider the application of section 43 of the FOIA to the withheld information and to determine whether further recorded information is held by Ignite on INI’s behalf and between two named individuals. The Commissioner’s decision is that INI is entitled to rely on section 43 of the FOIA in this case and that the public interest rests in maintaining this exemption. With regards to whether any further recorded information is held, some was albeit late identified and disclosed. In relation to this the Commissioner has found INI in breach of section 1(1)(b) and 10 of the FOIA. This is because it failed to identify and disclose information, to which the complainant was entitled, within 20 working days of receipt. In terms of whether any further recorded information is held, the Commissioner has decided that on the balance of the probabilities all relevant recorded information has now been identified and disclosed and no further recorded information is held. Overall, therefore, the Commissioner does not require any further action to be taken in relation to this matter.FOI 43: Complaint not upheld FOI 10: Complaint upheld FOI 1: Complaint upheld
Decision notice: fs50864406