Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

The complainant has requested information relating to numbers of Down syndrome births. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (the Trust) refused to provide the requested information citing the exemption under section 40(2) of the FOIA (third party personal data) as its basis for doing so. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Trust has correctly applied section 40(2) of FOIA to the withheld information. The Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any steps as a result of this decision notice.