ICO policy documents: Line to Take

In January 2007, the ICO released via FOI [1] a number of their "Line to take" policy documents - these indicate how they approach certain types of complaints.

• EIR - Regulation 8(3) - Cost - Reasonable amount
• FOI - s1 - Information held - Deleted electronic information
• FOI - s1(4) - Deleted information - Information held at one time and not at another
• FOI - s12 - Calculation of costs - Specialist software
• FOI/EIR - s42 / reg 12(5)(b) - Legal Professional Privilege - Similarity of exemption and exception
• FOI/EIR - s42/reg 12(5)(b) - Legal Professional Privilege - Waiver
• EIR - reg 2 - Environmental information - Town and Country Planning Act 1990
• FOI - s.1(3)/s16 - Clarification of requests - Wording and tone
• FOI - s16/s50(1) - Advice and Assistance - Consideration of issues not raised by complainant
• FOI/EIR - s3 / reg 2(2) - Public authorities - Port of London
• FOI/EIR - s3 /reg 2(2) - Public authorities - District Auditors
• FOI - s3 - Public authorities - Official Receivers
• FOI - Prejudice test - Likelihood
• FOI - s2(2)(b) - Public interest - Relevant considerations
• FOI - s42 - Legal Professional Privilege - Public interest
• FOI - s43 - Commercial interests - Prejudice to contractual negotiations
• FOI - s36 - Reasonable opinion of a qualified person - Procedure
• FOI - s.44 - Prohibition on disclosure - Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
• FOI - 30(1) - Investigations - Applicability of exemption
• FOI - 30(1) - Investigations - Public interest factors
• FOI/EIR - s.50 - Exemptions not claimed by a public authority - Commissioner’s duties and rights
• FOI - s44 - Statutory prohibition - Premium Saving Bonds Regulations 1972
• FOI - s.44 - Prohibitions on disclosure - Police Act 1996
• FOI/EIR - s44 - Prohibitions on disclosure - Public Contract Regulations 2006: reg.43
• FOI - s19/s22 - Forms of publication - Inspection
• FOI - s21 - Reasonably accessible information - Information made available on inspection
• FOI - s21 - Reasonable accessible information - Audit Commission Act 1998
• FOI - s.40 - Personal data - Legal aid costs

August 2010

An updated list has been requested via FOI and is available on WhatDoTheyKnow [2]. There are now 177 LTTs.

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These were released in a scanned pdf format (stored in 7 separate documents covering the updated

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set of LTTs), however they were poorly OCR'ed, making it difficult to refer to the LTTs and re-use the data. Work is currently in progress to transcribe the updated list of LTTs into a more structured format on FOIwiki, to enable the policies to be more easily interlinked with the other information on the site.

List of LTTs on FOIwiki

• Line to take - LTT1 - Reasonable amount
• Line to take - LTT2 - Deleted electronic information
• Line to take - LTT3 - Information deleted after request
• Line to take - LTT4 - Use of specialist staff or software
• Line to take - LTT5 - Similarity of s42 and regulation 12(5)(b)
• Line to take - LTT6 - Waiver of legal professional privilege
• Line to take - LTT7 - Town and Country Planning Act 1990
• Line to take - LTT8 - Clarification of requests
• Line to take - LTT9 - Issues not raised by complainant
• LTT10 - Public authorities - Port of London - missing?
• Line to take - LTT11 - District Auditors
• Line to take - LTT12 - Official Receivers
• Line to take - LTT13 - Prejudice test
• Line to take - LTT14 - Public interest inherent in exemption / exception
• Line to take - LTT15 - Public interest in legal professional privilege
• Line to take - LTT16 - Prejudice to contractual relations
• Line to take - LTT17 - Investigation of the reasonable opinion of the qualified person
• Line to take - LTT18 - Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
• Line to take - LTT19 - Applicability of section 30(1)
• Line to take - LTT20 - Public interest factors for s30
• Line to take - LTT21 - Exemptions and exceptions not claimed by a public authority
• Line to take - LTT22 - Accessibility of court records
• Line to take - LTT23 - Police Act 1996
• Line to take - LTT24 - Public Contract Regulations
• Line to take - LTT25 - Inspection as a form of publication
• Line to take - LTT26 - Reasonably accessible information and publication schemes
• Line to take - LTT27 - Audit Commission Act 1998
• Line to take - LTT28 - Legal aid costs
• Line to take - LTT29 - Finding in breach of sections 1, 10 or 17
• Line to take - LTT30 - Disclosure of Vehicle Identification Numbers
• Line to take - LTT31 - Duty to search only up to the appropriate limit
• Line to take - LTT32 - Requests for schedules of documents
• Line to take - LTT33 - Duty to confirm or deny in the EIR
• Line to take - LTT34 - Responses to 'information not held' cases
• Line to take - LTT35 - Interpretation of 'reasonable opinion'
• Line to take - LTT36 - Application of PIT to s36
• Line to take - LTT37 - Access to medical records of the deceased
• Line to take - LTT38 - Definition of court records
• Line to take - LTT39 - Failure to issue refusal notice in time
• Line to take - LTT40 - Contracts between public authorities and third parties
• LTTs 41 to 177 - Coming soon!