University of Birmingham

The complainant made a four-part request for information relating to clinical targets the University of Birmingham (“the UoB”) may have set. For parts one and two the UoB supplied external links to the General Dental Council’s (GDC) website citing section 21(1) of FOIA and refused to release any further information in scope of the request citing section 43(2) of FOIA to withhold the information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the UoB was entitled to engage section 21(1) of FOIA to information available in the public domain on the GDC’s website, and that the withheld information engages section 43(2) of FOIA and the public interest favours maintaining the exemption. No steps are required as a result of this decision.