ICO Decision On National Parks Commission
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez issued Decision 04/2025 regarding the National Parks Commission.
A spokesperson said, “On 7 February 2025, Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez issued Decision 04/2025, National Parks Commission, which considered the National Parks Commission’s failure to issue an internal review decision on a PATI request for the National Parks Commission’s meeting minutes between 2022 and 2024.
“Information Commissioner Gutierrez found that the National Parks Commission did not issue an internal review decision to the Applicant within the 6-week timeline set out in the PATI Act. The Information Commissioner has ordered the National Parks Commission to issue the Applicant its internal review decision by 7 March 2025.
“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 timeframe. 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 National Parks Commission, has properly denied access to any of the requested records.”
The full version of Decision 04/2025 follows below [PDF here]:
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