NHS Property Services Ltd

The complainant has requested correspondence and information between named people at NHS Property Services Limited (NHSPS) relating to Hightown Village Surgery and its lease between specific dates. NHSPS withheld information in scope of the request under section 40(2) and 43(2) FOIA.The Commissioner’s decision is that some of the information is reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means and therefore exempt under section 21 FOIA. For the remaining information, NHSPS has correctly applied section 40(2) to withhold personal information but has not demonstrated that section 43(2) is engaged in relation to information on lease negotiations, maintenance and supplier requests. The Commissioner requires NHSPS to disclose the information in the folders ‘Lease Negotiations’, ‘Letter to Landlord’, ‘Maintenance Correspondence’ and ‘Supplier Requests’, redact any names/contact information and exclude any information already accessible to the applicant as a recipient/sender.