Ministry of Justice
- Date 24 April 2014
- Sector Central government
- Decision(s) FOI 40: Partly upheld
The complainant requested information relating to inappropriate behaviour by staff working in a women’s prison. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) refused to disclose the requested information citing section 40(2) (personal information)of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the exemption was correctly applied to some of the withheld information but that the remaining withheld information is not ‘personal data’. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the aggregate information it confirmed it holds relating to the number of prison officers suspended, dismissed or convicted as a result of sexually inappropriate behaviour with women prisons in the past five years.