Interesting, I've had a few FOI requests refused on basis of costs where the redaction was the biggest factor in the cost. The biggest inflating factor being that a senior manager would have to be the one who collated and redacted the information as the raw information may contain commercially confidential information.
Another reason I've seen used, which I think we will see more often in the future, is where a request covers a service which is delivered via a private sector company (which may be wholly owned by the public sector body) so the response is that as the FOI only covers public sector bodies no information from the company can be supplied and any information held by the public body will be commercially confidential and there cannot be released. Stephen Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: Colm Howard-Lloyd <[email protected]> Sender: developers-public-bounces+stephenbooth.uk=gmail....@lists.mysociety.org Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:07:16 To: mySociety public, general purpose discussion list<[email protected]> Reply-To: "mySociety public, general purpose discussion list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] FOI request concerning emails _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/stephenbooth.uk%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
