Suffolk County Council

The complainant has requested the recorded cause of a fire that occurred in a particular location. Suffolk County Council (the council) refused to provide the requested information, citing section 21 of FOIA – information accessible to the applicant by other means. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation, the council disclosed the information but the complainant did not accept that all the information falling within scope had been disclosed. The Commissioner’s decision is that the requested information falls under the EIR and that, on the balance of probability, there is no further information held by the council. The Commissioner does not require further steps.