We will strive to make information available whenever we legally can, except where we consider release would cause significant harm.
The Freedom of Information Act is aimed at all information we hold. However, there is certain information that is ‘exempt’ from the Act. This means that we must first decide whether an exemption applies to all or part of the information someone has asked for and balance withholding it against the public interest in providing it (public interest test). There are a number of ‘absolute exemptions’ where we do not have to provide the information at all.