Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

The Commissioner’s decision is that two of the seven parts of the complainant’s request aren’t valid requests for information under section 8(1) of FOIA. Of the remaining five parts of the request, the Commissioner finds that Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) doesn’t hold information within scope of four of them but does hold information within scope of one part. His decision is that Trust’s handling of the request breached sections 1(1) and 10(1) of FOIA as it didn’t confirm whether it held recorded information within scope of the request or communicate it, within the statutory time frame. The Trust must now take the following step to ensure compliance with the legislation: Either communicate to the complainant the information that falls within scope of part 5 of the request or issue a refusal notice.