Ministry of Justice
- Date 11 September 2017
- Sector Central government
- Decision(s) FOI 1: Partly upheld, FOI 10: Upheld
The complainant requested information about the cost to prisoners of making telephone calls from within a named prison, also the differences in the cost of calls charged to different categories of prisoner. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Ministry of Justice has now disclosed all of the information it holds that falls within the scope of the information request as section 1(1) FOIA (general right of access) requires so that she did not uphold the complaint. She further decided that, in delaying the issue of a response beyond the 20 working days statutory maximum time allowed, the Ministry of Justice had breached section 10(1) FOIA (time for compliance with request). The Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any further steps to comply with the legislation. Information Tribunal appeal EA/2017/0242 dismissed.