Manchester City Council

The complainant submitted a seven part request for information held about positions of employment at Manchester City Council (the council) that are focussed on equity, inclusion and community engagement. The council provided the complainant with information in response to six of the seven parts of their request. The council refused to disclose the information held about ethnicity that was relevant to the remaining part of the request, relying on the exemption at section 40(2) (third party personal information) of FOIA as its basis for doing so. The Commissioner’s decision is that the council has correctly applied section 40(2) to the withheld information.