Crown Prosecution Service

The complainant asked a series of questions about named employees of the CPS. The request was for, amongst other things, details of the disciplinary and criminal records of named individuals; the previous employment history of a named individual; the ethnicities of named individuals involved in a disciplinary case; and the gender and ethnicities of complainants and respondents in dismissal appeals heard by a named individual, together with the outcomes of those cases. The CPS withheld the majority of the information, citing section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Commissioner upheld its application of section 40(2) but found procedural breaches in respect of the time taken to respond to the request.