Link for IOC full Decision notice pdf file: County of Herefordshire District Council (Local government) [2025] UKICO 356648 (2 June 2025)
The complainant requested information relating to their late mother. Herefordshire Council (the -Council-) disclosed some information and withheld other information under the exemptions for personal information (section 40) and information provided in confidence (section 41). The Commissioner-s decision is that the Council correctly relied on the exemptions in section 40(1), section 40(2) and section 41 to withhold the requested information but that it failed to issue a refusal notice in time and breached section 17(1). The Commissioner does not require the Council to take any further steps.