Open University

The complainant has requested information from the Open University (“the University”) relating to the University’s redundancy criteria for Associate Lecturers. The University disclosed some information to the complainant, however it refused to disclose the remainder (“the withheld information”), citing section 36(2)(b)(ii) as a basis for non-disclosure. The Commissioner’s decision is that the University has correctly applied section 36(2)(b)(ii) to the withheld information and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs that in disclosure of the withheld information. The Commissioner therefore requires no steps to be taken.