Southend-on-sea Borough Council

The complainant requested information relating to a published report on primary school catchment areas, following consultation by questionnaire. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (the ‘Council’) responded, providing some of the requested information, but refused to provide the remainder as it said it would need to create information in order to do so. Having considered the information available the Commissioner is satisfied that the information requested by the complainant in part 2 of the request is not held by the Council and FOIA places no obligation on it to create new information in response to the request. In relation to part 3 of the request, the Commissioner finds, that on the balance of probabilities, the Council does not hold any further information beyond that already provided to the complainant. The Commissioner does not require the Council to take any steps as a result of this notice.