This decision notice considers the responses made by South Lanarkshire Council (the Council) to three requests from Dr Gordon Macdonald for information about correspondence to and from a named Councillor. The Council advised Dr Macdonald that it did not hold the information he requested.
The Council took the view that some of the correspondence, if it existed, would be held by the Council on behalf of another Scottish public authority.
After requiring the Council to review its response to each of his requests, Dr Macdonald applied to the Scottish Information Commissioner (the Commissioner) for a decision on whether the Council had complied with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) in dealing with his requests.
During the Commissioner’s investigation the Council carried out searches to establish whether any information relevant to Dr Macdonald’s requests was held, regardless of the ownership issue. No information was found.
The Commissioner found that the Council had complied with Part 1 of FOISA in notifying Dr Macdonald that the information he requested was not held by it.
Citations:
[2008] ScotIC 127 – 2008
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Updated: 11 April 2022; Ref: scu.434211
