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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2022/139489.html
Cite as: [2022] UKICO 139489

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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

The complainant requested information from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) about a grant given to the Carbis Bay Hotel (the Hotel), Cornwall, in 2014 by the Coastal Communities Fund. DLUHC provided some information within the scope of the request but refused to provide the remaining information. It cited the exceptions under regulation 12(5)(e) of the EIR (the confidentiality of commercial information exception) and regulation 13 of the EIR (the personal data exception). There was also a dispute between the amount of information located by DLUHC and the amount of information that the complainant believed should be held by it. The Commissioner’s decision is that DLUHC has correctly applied regulation 12(5)(e) to some, but not all, of the information withheld on this basis; DLUHC has correctly applied regulation 13 to the information withheld on this basis; on the balance of probabilities, no further information falling within the scope of the request is held by DLUHC. The Commissioner requires DLUHC to disclose the information withheld under regulation 12(5)(e) for which the Commissioner has decided the exception is not engaged to ensure compliance with the legislation.

EIR 13: Complaint not upheld EIR 5(1): Complaint not upheld EIR 12(5)(e): Complaint partly upheld

Decision notice: 139489