Department for Education

The complainant has requested information on Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust, specifically minutes, invoices, expenses and other documents associated with the trust. The Department for Education refused the request on the basis of section 14 as it considered complying with the request would be burdensome due to the need to consider a number of exemptions including various subsections of section 31, section 36 and section 40. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DfE has correctly applied section 14(1) to refuse the request. She therefore does not require the DfE to take any steps.