Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools

The complainant has requested raw and standardised test scores, plus dates of birth and pupil funding entitlements for the 11+ test sat in schools in the Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools in 2019. The Consortium refused to provide the information on the basis of section 43(2) of the FOIA, and sought to rely on section 40(2) as an alternative to withhold the date of birth and entitlement to pupil premium funding. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Consortium has correctly applied the section 43(2) exemption to the requested information and the public interest favours withholding the information. He has therefore not gone on to consider the section 40(2) exemption in this case. First-tier tribunal (General Regulatory chamber) information rights appeal EA/2022/0245 under appeal.