All information covered by our guide to information can either be accessed through our website, or will be provided promptly following our receipt of your request.

Our aim in adopting the Commissioner’s Model Publication Scheme 2012 and in maintaining this guide to information is to be as open as possible. You should note, however, that there may be limited circumstances where information will be withheld from one of the classes of information listed in Section 11 – Classes of Information. Information will only be withheld, however, where FOISA (or, in the case of environmental information, the EIRs expressly permits it.
Information may be withheld, for example, where its disclosure would breach the law of confidentiality, harm an organisation’s commercial interests, or endanger the protection of the environment. Information may also be withheld if it is another person’s personal information, and its release would breach the data protection legislation.

Whenever information is withheld we will inform you of this, and will set out why that information cannot be released. Even where information is withheld it may, in many cases, be possible to provide copies with the withheld information edited out. If you wish to complain about any information which has been withheld from you, please refer to Section 9 – Complaints.