London Borough of Hackney

The complainant made two requests for information about a particular property and relationship with a contractor. The London Borough of Hackney allocated reference numbers to both requests, but had failed to respond to either request at the date of this notice. The Commissioner’s decision is that the London Borough failed to respond to either request within 20 working days and has therefore breached section 10 of the FOIA in respect of both requests. The Commissioner requires the London Borough to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: issue a substantive response, under the FOIA, to the requests which it dealt with under references 6498 and 6640.