Staffordshire County Council

The complainant requested information from Staffordshire County Council (the Council) relating to work in specified locations he believed to have been done by the Council. The complainant disputed the Council’s handling of points 2(a) and 2(b) of the request, namely its denial that it held relevant information. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, the Council does not hold the requested information. She therefore upholds the Council’s application of regulation 12(4)(a) (information not held) of the EIR. She did, however, find a procedural breach of regulation 11 (representations and considerations) of the EIR. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken as a result of this decision.