Department for Transport

The complainant requested information on the announcement of Stanford West as the preferred location for Operation Stack lorry park. The Department for Transport (DfT) refused to comply with the request on the basis that to do so would exceed the appropriate limit in costs set by section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the FOIA”). The Commissioner’s decision is that the DfT correctly applied section 12(1) and found that there is no breach of section 16(1).