FOI request (FOI-79504593)

Under the provisions of FOI legislation can you please provide a full list of questions and answers on your Hastings Borough Council Knowledge Test. This includes:

A) Full terms and conditions questions and answers

B) Full routes questions and answers

C) Any numerical and maths related questions there may be

D) Any other relevant information to the knowledge test

The information requested is exempt under Section 31 (1) - Law Enforcement

 

Information which is not exempt information by virtue of section 30 is exempt information if its disclosure under the Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice 1.2.1 (a) the exercise by any public authority of its functions for any of the purposes specified in subsection 1.2.2(d) The purpose of ascertaining a person's fitness or competence in relation to the management of bodies corporate or in connection to any profession or other activity which he is, or seeks to become, authorised to carry on, this includes licenses for private hire vehicles.

 

The exemption afforded by S31(1)(a) is subject to what is known as the 'public interest test'. When applying the test in a particular case a public authority is deciding whether the public interest is better served by non-disclosure than by disclosure.

Although the Freedom of Information Act does not define 'in the public interest', there is a presumption under Freedom of Information that openness is in the public interest. In applying the public interest test a public authority will take into account the distinction that has been often made by courts between things that are in the public interest, and things that merely interest the public. Where applicants have not identified public interest considerations succinctly or accurately, the public authority has a responsibility under the Act to make their own assessment of the public interest considerations in the particular case.

We have identified the following public interest factors that may be seen as encouraging the disclosure of information:

 

Factors in favour of disclosure:

 

 

Factors against disclosure: