Plymouth City Council

The complainant has requested details of policies and practices to evidence how Plymouth City Council (the “Council”) has dealt with him. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council failed to provide a valid response to the request thereby failing to comply with section 1(1) and section 10(1) of the FOIA. During the Commissioner’s investigation a Policy was identified which was provided to the complainant; as this was done outside the statutory time for compliance the Commissioner finds this to be in breach of section 10(1). The Commissioner requires the Council to issue a response compliant with the terms of the FOIA (it does not need to re-provide the Policy referred to above). The Council must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice.