City of York Council

The complainant has requested a list of council strategies. The council applied section 14(2) on the basis that it had previously received and responded to very similar requests from the complainant encompassing the same information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the council was not correct to apply section 14(2) to the information. It had previously agreed to provide information to the complainant in response to her earlier request but had failed to do so. The Commissioner requires the public authority to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. To disclose the information offered to the complainant by the council on 30 May 2017.