Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The complainant has requested scoring criteria and scores awarded to candidates in a recruitment exercise. The above public authority relied on section 40(2) of FOIA (third party personal information) to withhold the information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the information is not personal information and therefore the public authority is not entitled to rely on section 40(2) of FOIA to withhold it. The Commissioner requires the public authority to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation: Disclose a copy of the scoring criteria; and Disclose the anonymised scores of each candidate on each part of the assessment.