Southend-On-Sea City Council

The complainant requested information from Southend-on-Sea City Council (the public authority). By the date of this notice the public authority had not issued a substantive response to this request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority failed to provide a valid response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days and therefore it breached section 10(1) of FOIA. The public authority must provide a substantive response to the request in accordance with its obligations under FOIA.