/ Christine Peacock
Information Management Team
London Borough of Hackney
Corporate ICT
6-15 Florfield Road
London E8 1DT
Tel: 020 8356 5000
020 8356 2347
Our Reference: FOI16-0316-17142
14 October 2018
Dear Gemma Reeta
Re: Your Freedom of Information Request.
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received by this office on 15 March 2016 as follows:
“Dear Hackney Borough Council, Please may I have the managerial organisational structure for your council? Also a breakdown of the individual teams within the council including the names and contact details and telephone numbers of all of the team members for each area. ”
S21 Information readily accessible elsewhere
The Council has considered S21 of the FoI Act 2000. Section 21 (2a) states that information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt. In this case the organisational structure is available at As such the Council considers S21 to be engaged.
S22 Information to be published at a later date
The Council has considered exemption S22 Information to be published of the FoI Act 2000. This is because the structure chart is due to be updated in the near future. As such the Council considers S22 to be engaged.
S40(2) Personal Information
The Council has considered exemption S40(2) in the processing of your request. A public authority is only obliged to publish the first 3 tiers of its structure. The Council has to consider whether it would be ‘Fair and Lawful’ as per the 1st Data Protection Principle to publish the names of staff who are not senior management. The Council also has to consider what impact disclosure of names of staff who are not senior management, would have on those members of staff, as well as the reasonable expectations and the balance between their rights and any legitimate public interest in disclosure. As a Freedom of Information request is considered to be disclosure to the public at large, the Council is not satisfied that disclosure of names of staff other than senior staff would be fair and as such considers S40(2) to be engaged.
Please note the information is still covered by copyright legislation. You are not authorised to re-use this information for commercial or research purposes as defined by the Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. If you do wish to re-use this information please contact the Information Governance Team, 1st Floor, 6-15 Florfield Road, London, E8 1DT.
If you are dissatisfied with this response and wish to appeal, please write to the Information Governance Team, Appeals, 1st Floor, 6-15 Florfield Road, London, E8 1DT and this will be dealt with through our Internal Review procedure.
If you are still not satisfied following the Internal Review, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner. He can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone:01625 545 700
Yours sincerely
Christine Peacock
Director - ICT