Plymouth City Council

The complainant submitted a three part request to Plymouth City Council (the council) for particular information relating to infant mortality. The council initially advised the complainant that it did not hold any information that was relevant to their request. However, during the Commissioner’s investigation, the council identified and released information to the complainant in response to part 1 of their request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the information which has been provided to the complainant is an accurate reflection of the information that is held that is relevant to part 1 of the request and that, on the balance of probabilities, the council does not hold any further information that falls within scope of the remaining parts of the request. However, as the council failed to provide the complainant with the information relevant to part 1 of their request within the statutory 20 working days, the Commissioner has found a breach of section 10(1) (time for compliance) of FOIA.