ICO The complainant requested information relating to details of all correspondence between NHS Wakefield District Primary Care Trust, NHS Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority and the Department for Health concerning plans to build a specialist surgical centre at Dewsbury and District Hospital. The PCT refused the request citing section 36(2)(b)(i) and (ii) of the Act. The Commissioner finds that that the exemption under section 36(2)(b)(ii) was engaged and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in favour of disclosing the information. The Commissioner did however record a procedural breach of the Act in relation to the PCT’s handling of this request. Information Tribunal appeal number EA/2011/0166 dismissed.
Section of Act/EIR and Finding: FOI 17 – Complaint Upheld, FOI 36 – Complaint Not upheld
Citations:
[2011] UKICO FS50312123
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
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Updated: 08 June 2022; Ref: scu.530594
