Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council

The complainant requested information from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (“the Council”) regarding the sale of some land, specifically accounting information. The Council’s position is that it has disclosed all of the information held within scope of the request. The complainant disputes this. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, the Council does not hold any further information within the scope of the request. However, the Council breached section 10(1) of FOIA by failing to respond to the request within 20 working days and by not providing all of the requested information it held within this timeframe. The Commissioner does not require further steps.