Essex County Council
- Date 15 January 2019
- Sector Local government
- Decision(s) EIR 5.2: Upheld
The complainant has requested a copy of a waste collection contract. Essex County Council withheld some information, providing a redacted version of the contract. However, during the course of the Commissioners investigation it decided to release previously redacted information. The Commissioner’s decision is that in withholding information which it later released, Essex County Council has failed to provide information within the statutory timescale and therefore breached Regulation 5(2) of the EIR. As the information has now been released, the Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any steps.