Preston City Council

The complainant has requested information regarding complaints made against individual councillors under the standards process. The council provided a list of complaints, their outcomes, and the parties of the councillors concerned, but it withheld the identities of the individual councillors concerned under section 40(2) of FOIA (personal data). The Commissioner’s decision is that the council was partly correct to withhold the requested information under section 40(2). The Commissioner requires the council to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation. To disclose the names of councillors from the disclosed list where the individual complaints against them were upheld.