London Borough of Camden

The complainant submitted a number of requests to the London Borough of Camden (the Council) seeking information about a particular property. It refused to respond to the requests on the basis of section 12(1) of FOIA arguing that to do so would breach the appropriate cost limit. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation the Council identified a quicker way of extracting the information and subsequently provided this to the complainant (with the exception of some third party names which were withheld on the basis of section 40(2) of FOIA). The Commissioner has concluded that by failing to disclose the information which it has now provided to the complainant within 20 working days the Council breached section 10(1) of FOIA.