ICO Decision On Accountant General’s Dept
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez issued Decision 09/2024 in regards to the Accountant General’s Department.
A spokesperson said, “On 13 March 2024, Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez issued Decision 09/2024, Accountant General’s Department, which considered the Department’s failure to issue an internal review decision on a PATI request for records relating to sums paid by the Department on behalf of the Legal Aid Office.
“Information Commissioner Gutierrez found that the Department did not issue an internal review decision to the Applicant within the 6-week timeline set out in the PATI Act. However, the Department issued its internal review decision to the Applicant during the Information Commissioner’s independent review of this PATI request.
“In ‘failure to decide’ cases, the Information Commissioner does not address the underlying records responsive to a PATI request. Instead, it is a decision on whether a public authority has responded to a request within the statutory timeframes. Once an internal review decision has been issued, if a PATI requester is not satisfied with the public authority’s response, they may seek an independent review by the Information Commissioner of that substantive decision. It is at that stage that the Information Commissioner will consider whether a public authority, such as the Accountant General’s Department, has properly denied access to any of the requested records.”
The full version of Decision 09/2024 follows below [PDF here]:
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