Housing allowances for police officers – On 19 January 2015, Paul Hutcheon asked the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland (Police Scotland) for information on the amount of housing allowance claimed by officers in 2013-14.
Police Scotland provided Mr Hutcheon with information fulfilling part of his request, but they refused to provide a breakdown of the amount of housing allowance claimed by individual senior officers. Following a review, Mr Hutcheon remained dissatisfied and applied to the Commissioner for a decision.
The Commissioner investigated and found that Police Scotland were entitled to withhold the information on the basis that it was personal data, disclosure of which would breach the first data protection principle, and therefore it was exempt from disclosure under FOISA.
[2015] ScotIC 139 – 2015
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Updated: 04 January 2022; Ref: scu.552562