Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The complainant requested information about investigations and reports concerning Covid-19 testing at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. By the date of this notice, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (“the Trust”) had not issued a substantive response to this request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Trust has breached section 10(1) of 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 Trust to take the following step to ensure compliance with the legislation: The Trust must provide a substantive response to the request in accordance with its obligations under FOIA.