East Riding of Yorkshire Council
- Date 15 December 2014
- Sector Local government
- Decision(s) FOI 40: Not upheld
The complainant has requested the salary details for all staff employed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. As the Council only holds exact salaries and not pay scales for each employee it withheld the information on the basis of section 40(2). The Commissioner accepts that the information constitutes personal data and that disclosing this information would breach the first principle of the Data Protection Act 1998. The Commissioner’s decision is therefore that the section 40(2) exemption has been correctly applied to withhold this information.