Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The complainant made a request on 7 July 2022 for the details of 49 specified contracts identified on a spreadsheet provided in response to an earlier FOIA request. The Trust refused to comply with the request under section 12 FOIA as it said it would exceed the cost limit to do so. The Commissioner’s decision is that section 12 FOIA was incorrectly applied to the request. The Commissioner requires the public authority to provide a fresh response under the FOIA to the request dated 7 July 2022 not relying upon section 12 FOIA.