Lambeth London Borough Council

The complainant has requested two parts of information from the London Borough of Lambeth (“the Council”) regarding its security incident reports and some information surrounding a previous request he had made. The Council provided some information and stated that it held no further information within the scope of the complainant’s request. During the Commissioner’s investigation, the Council discovered that it did hold more information relating to one part of the request and provided it to the complainant. Therefore, the Commissioner’s decision is as follows: The Council has breached section 1 and section 10 of the FOIA as it failed to provide all the information it held, falling within the scope of the request, within 20 working days. In relation to part 3 of the complainant’s request, any information that the Council may hold would be his own personal data and thus exempt under section 40(1) of the FOIA. As the Council has now provided this to the complainant, the Commissioner does not require any steps to be taken.