NHS Business Services Authority

The complainant has requested information about how the concessionary price of the drug bicalutamide (specifically 50 mg tablets) was calculated over the six months between October 2017 and March 2018 and other information related to Category M prices. The NHSBSA stated that some of the information was not held and withheld the remainder under sections 43(2), 41(1) and 36(2)(c) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) does not hold information in relation to parts two, three and four of the request and has applied section 41(1) correctly to part one. As this applies to the whole of the requested information in part one she has not gone on to consider the application of section 43(2) or section 36(2). The Commissioner does not require the NHSBSA to take any further steps. Information Tribunal appeal EA/2019/0239 disposed by consent.