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