Rutland County Council
- Date 2 August 2018
- Sector Local government
- Decision(s) EIR 12.5.e: Upheld
The complainant has requested full details of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Rutland County Council and the Ministry of Defence. The Commissioner’s decision is that Rutland County Council has wrongly applied the exemption at regulation 12(5)(e) to redact some information within the MoU. The Commissioner requires the public authority to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: disclose the MoU in full. The public authority must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice. Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of the Act and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.