Powys Teaching Health Board

The complainant requested information from Powys Teaching Health Board (“the Board”) about the training courses that had been attended by certain named members of staff. The Board withheld the information under section 40(2) of the FOIA: third party personal data. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Board correctly determined that the requested information was third party personal data and that there was no lawful basis for disclosing it. She is therefore satisfied that section 40(2) of the FOIA was correctly applied. However, since the Board did not provide its response to the request within the statutory time limit of twenty working days, it breached section 10(1) of the FOIA. The Commissioner does not require the Board to take any steps.