The complainant has requested from the Department for Education (DfE) information exchanged between Cheshire Academies Trust (including their solicitors {name redacted}) and the Schools Complainants Unit regarding case number (redacted). The DfE dealt with the request as a business as usual enquiry and disclosed the requested information to the complainant with some redactions in excess of 20 working days. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DfE should have dealt with the request under the FOIA and responded to the complainant promptly and in any event within 20 working days. As the DfE failed to do this the Commissioner finds that it breached section 1(1) and 10(1) of the FOIA. As the DfE has now disclosed the requested information to the complainant, the Commissioner does not require it to take any steps.
FOI 1: Upheld FOI 10: Upheld
Citations:
[2015] UKICO FS50592397
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
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Updated: 05 October 2022; Ref: scu.556690