FOISA says that information which I hold on behalf of another body isn held by me, which means I don have to disclose it. What does FOISA mean by information held on behalf of another person?
Information which your authority holds but which has been supplied or provided by another public authority will normally be ‘held’ by you. This means that you will have to disclose the information in line with FOISA. However, ‘holding’ information is not always a question of physical fact. For example, if Authority A provides a document storage facility for Authority B, Authority A is not the holder of the information for the purposes of FOISA and is not obliged to disclose it in response to an FOI request. Although Authority B does not physically hold the information on its premises, it does ‘hold’ the information for the purposes of FOISA and is responsible for responding to FOI requests in relation to that information. If authority A receives a request for information which it holds on behalf of Authority B, it should issue a refusal notice within 20 days advising the requester that it does not hold the information and should refer the applicant to Authority B, which is the true hol
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