A local authority had not been entitled under Regulation 12(4)(a) of the ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS to decline an Information Request for a List or Map of which roads would be subject to a new 20 mph speed limit on the ground that it did not “ hold “ the information. So held in ROBERTS v INFORMATION COMMISSIONER ( 2025 ) UK FTT 111 ( GRC ). The authority held the necessary information, albeit in a different format. Producing a list or map would not require any particular skill or judgment outside that found within its staff. Where information requested under the EIR or the FoIA could be produced only from raw data or building blocks through some processing or other operation, whether the information is “ held “ depends upon the complexity of the operations needing to be performed and the degree of skill and judgment necessary to if a particular building block should be regarded as contributing to the requested information.

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