Stoke-on-Trent City Council

The complainant requested information about the road maintenance policy, and repair history, relating to a specified road. Stoke on Trent City Council (the Council) disclosed some of the requested information, but withheld the remainder under regulation 12(5)(b) (the course of justice etc) and regulation 13 (personal information) of the EIR. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council correctly applied regulation 12(5)(b) of the EIR to the information withheld by virtue of that exception and that the public interest in all the circumstances of the case favours maintaining the exception as set out in regulation 12(5)(b). She also found that the Council correctly applied regulation 13 of the EIR to the information withheld by virtue of that exception. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken as a result of this decision.