Vale of Glamorgan Council
- Date 30 June 2022
- Sector Local government
- Decision(s) FOI 10(1): Upheld, FOI 40(2): Not upheld
The complainant submitted a request for information under FOIA to the Vale of Glamorgan Council (“the Council”) on 16 August 2021. The Council provided a substantive response to this request on 1 October 2021 The Council withheld part of the information under section 40(2) (personnel information) due to low numbers in the dataset. The Commissioner’s decision is that it was appropriate to apply this exemption to the withheld information. However, the Council failed to respond to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days and so the Commissioner has found that the Council breached section 10(1) of FOIA. The Commissioner does not require the Council to take any action in relation to this decision notice.