Beckley and Stowood Parish Council

The complainant has requested information about the Council’s correspondence with its auditors, a specific spreadsheet and the Council’s budget, all in electronic format.  The Council provided information falling within the scope of the request but denied holding the spreadsheet requested.  It originally supplied the information held in hard copy, and later electronically.

The Commissioner’s decision is that Beckley and Stowood Parish Council has breached section 10 of the FOIA by failing to supply information within 20 working days in the format requested by the complainant.  The Commissioner is satisfied that, on the balance of probability, the spreadsheet requested was not held by the Council at the time the request was made, but finds that the Council has again breached section 10 by failing to confirm this within 20 working days.  The Commissioner does not find any breach of section 1 as the Council provided all the information it held falling within the scope of the request by the time it had completed its internal review.

The Commissioner does not require the Council to take any further steps.