North Norfolk District Council

The complainant has requested from North Norfolk District Council information relating to an ‘exemption certificate’ for a procurement exercise. The Council responded that request b) was not a valid request for information, and that information was held for request c) but that it was exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) (Personal information) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council does not hold the information sought by request b), but that for request c) the Council has failed to comply with section 1 of the FOIA. The Commissioner requires the Council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: Undertake fresh searches for that information that would fall within the parameters of request c) and issue a fresh response to the complainant.