Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

The complainant requested information from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (“PHSO”) about statutory and regulatory details supporting its decisions. By the date of this notice the PHSO had failed to provide a substantive response to this request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the PHSO has breached section 10(1) of the FOIA in that it failed to provide a valid response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days. The Commissioner requires the PHSO to respond to the complainant’s request in accordance with the FOIA.