Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

The complainant requested a copy of a Planning Inspector’s Report and Recommendation regarding HM Prison Grendon from DLUHC. DLUHC withheld the requested information under regulation 12(4)(e) of the EIR (internal communications). It also withheld some of the requested information under regulation 12(3) of the EIR, by virtue of regulation 13 (personal data).
The Commissioner’s decision is that DLUHC is entitled to withhold the entire report under regulation 12(4)(e) (internal communications). He has therefore not gone on to consider whether DLUHC was right to also withhold some of the information within the report under regulation 12(3) of the EIR, by virtue of regulation 13 (personal data).
The Commissioner does not require DLUHC to take further steps.