London Borough of Hackney

The complainant has requested information from Hackney London Borough Council (‘the Council’), relating to an innovation application and a third-party demonstration. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, the Council has not identified all the information it holds within the scope of question 2 of the request. The Council has not conducted adequate searches to determine whether it holds information within the scope of this part of the request. For the parts 3-9 and 1 of the request, the Commissioner is satisfied that the public authority has either provided all the information it holds (although it does not hold some of the information) or the information would (if it were held by the Council) be exempt under section 21 of FOIA because the complainant already has this information The Commissioner has also decided that question 10 is not a valid request for information and the Council is not expected to respond to this question under FOIA. The Council also failed to provide information within the scope of the request within 20 working days and has therefore breached section 10(1). The Commissioner requires the Council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. Issue a fresh response to question 2, following further searches based on the findings set out at paragraphs 43-47.