Hi all,
If someone makes a subject access request, and after due process you decide
that a certain document should be withheld, on third party grounds, or as
one of the exemptions in schedule 7, do you have to own up to having
withheld it? My preference is to tell them 'Here is all the information you
are entitled to', without adding 'and by the way we have withheld certain
items'. Is this correct? I can't see anything in the Act that specifically
says you have to own up, although you do have to provide 'a description of
the personal data ... ' (s.7(1)(b)(i)), which I suppose could be interpreted
as meaning something like that.
Paul Ticher
Information Management
0116 273 8191
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