Link for IOC full Decision notice pdf file: Exeter City Council (Local government) [2025] UKICO 345711 (4 June 2025)
The complainant requested various information regarding Exeter Canal and Quay Trust (ECQT) from Exeter City Council (the Council). The Council provided some information via a link to its website and refused the remainder citing regulation 12(5)(e) (confidentiality of commercial information), regulation 12(5)(f) (the interests of the person who provided the information), and regulation 13 (personal information)of the EIR. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the Council was entitled to rely on regulation 12(5)(f) to refuse the withheld information. The Commissioner does not require any steps.