Coventry City Council

The complainant has requested copies of documentation relating to Coventry City Council’s (the Council) management of IT assets. The Council provided some information, stated that other information was not held, which the complainant did not challenge, and relied on section
31(3) of FOIA (law enforcement) to neither confirm nor deny whether it held any further information.
The Commissioner’s decision is that section 31(3) is not engaged.
The Commissioner therefore requires the Council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation.
Issue a fresh response to questions one, two, three, five, six, eight, 10, 11, and 14 to 18 of the request which confirms or denies whether the requested information is held.
If the requested information is held, it should either be disclosed, or the Council should issue a refusal notice explaining why it is exempt from disclosure.