The complainant submitted a request to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) seeking information about the Maximum Authorised Number of officers for a particular transfer selection board and a promotion selection board for the years 2007 to 2015. The MOD provided some of the data for the date range requested but explained that data for some years was not held. The complainant disputed this arguing that the MOD would hold the data and furthermore that there were discrepancies in the data that had been released which led him to believe that the information provided to him was not accurate. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation of this complaint, the MOD undertook a verification exercise, as a result of which it located all of the information falling within the date range requested and provided this to the complainant. It was also able to confirm that such data should be considered to be the definitive version. The complainant accepts this but is dissatisfied with the length of time it took the MOD to provide him with the information he had requested. The Commissioner’s decision is that the MOD breached section 10(1) by failing to provide the complainant with the information it held falling within the scope of his request within 20 working days.
FOI 10: Complaint upheld
Citations:
[2019] UKICO FS50810821
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Information
Updated: 11 October 2022; Ref: scu.650339
