Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

The complainant has requested information regarding Hackney Carriages  licenced by the council. Bury Metropolitan Borough Council (“the council”) disclosed some information, however it said that other information is not held by it. The Commissioner’s decision is that the council does not hold the requested information for the purposes of Regulation 5(1) of the EIR. However, the Commissioner has decided that the council did not comply with the requirements of Regulation 9(1) in that it did not provide advice and assistance to the requestor to aid them in making a new request for similar information which is held by the council. The Commissioner requires the council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. To provide further information on the types of information it does hold, similar to that requested by the complainant in their request, in order to aid in the complainant in formulating a new request for information which is held by the council.