High Speed Two Limited

The complainant has requested information, plans and reports relating to the approach and throat section to the North-West of Euston Station. High Speed Two Limited (HS2) initially responded that there was no information for some parts of the request and applied Regulation 12(5)(d), material which is still in the course of completion, to the remaining parts of the request. During the course of the investigation, it applied Regulation 12(4)(b) (manifestly unreasonable) to the remaining parts of the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that Regulation 12(4)(b) (manifestly unreasonable) does apply to the information and the public interest favoured maintaining this exception. The Commissioner also found a breach of regulation 14(2). The Commissioner does not require HS2 to take any steps.