The complainant made a multi-part request to Transport for London (TfL) for information about the recruitment procedures of MTR Crossrail. TfL responded to each element of the request, but the complainant remained dissatisfied with some of those responses. Following an internal review TfL’s position is that it does not hold any additional information in respect of the three elements of the request which are the focus of this complaint. The Commissioner’s decision is that TfL does not hold any additional information and is therefore not under a duty, imposed by section 1(1)(b), to communicate that information to the complainant. Furthermore the Commissioner finds that in respect of the request for a particular job advert, TfL did not hold any information at the time the request was received. Although TfL tried to be helpful by obtaining some relevant information from MTR Crossrail, by failing to make it clear to the complainant that TfL did not hold the job advert itself, TfL has breached section 1(1)(a) of the FOIA. However as the situation has now been clarified in this notice, the Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any further action in respect of this matter.
FOI 1: Complaint partly upheld
[2019] UKICO fs50777422
Bailii
England and Wales
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Updated: 01 December 2021; Ref: scu.635041
