
Information Rights Team
Post Office Limited
Ground Floor
Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London EC2Y 9AQ
Your reference:
Our reference: FOI2021/01133
Guy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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18 January 2022
Dear
Guy,
Freedom of Information Request – FOI2021/01133 I am writing in response to your email received by Post Office Limited (“
Post Office”) on
23 December, which has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (“
FOIA”).
In your email you have requested the following information:
Please can you release the roles and responsibilities of the recently appointed
Postmaster Director and the postmasters who have been elected and appointed to
join the Post Office Board.
Please also include their accountabilities and objectives for the current financial
year.
I can confirm that Post Office does hold the information you have requested as per the
attached files:
• Job Description - Postmaster Director.pdf
• Responsibilities as set out in the Non-Executive Directors’ letter of appointment -
Role and duties.pdf
As Post Office Limited’s Board of Directors is reasonably accessible to you by other
means it is exempt from disclosure under s21 of FOIA. The information can be found on
our website here:
https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/secure-corporate/our-leadership/our-
group-executive/
Non-Executive Directors do not have annual objectives as they are office holders rather
than employees and Post Office considers the Postmaster Director objectives to be
Personal Data as defined by the UK General Data Protection Regulation ("UK GDPR") and
is therefore exempt from disclosure under s40(2) of FOIA.
Section 40(2) and section 40(3A)(a) FOIA provide that any information to which a request
for information relates is exempt information if it constitutes personal data and the
disclosure of that personal data to a member of the public otherwise than under the FOIA
would contravene any of the data protection principles (set out in Article 5(1) of the GDPR
(Section 40(7) of the FOIA)). Post Office considers that those individuals at GE-1 and
Public
below have a reasonable expectation that their objectives would not be published and that
disclosure to you would contravene the 'lawfulness, fairness and transparency' principle
set out at Article 5(1)(a) of the UK GDPR. Post Office considers that it has no lawful basis
on which to disclose to you the exempted personal data since none of the lawful bases
listed under Article 6(1) of the UK GDPR are available to it.
If you have any queries about this response, please contact me. Do remember to quote
the reference number above in any future communications.
I hope the information I have provided on this occasion is useful, however if you are
dissatisfied with the handling of this response, you do have a right to request an internal
review. You can do this by writing to the address above stating your reasons for your
internal review request.
If, having requested an internal review by Post Office, you are stil not satisfied with our
response you also have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
https://ico.org.uk Yours sincerely,
L Jackson
Liesl Jackson
Information Rights Team
xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx http://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/secure-corporate/about-us/access-to-information/
Post Office Limited is committed to protecting your privacy, information about how
we do this can be found on our website at www.postoffice.co.uk/privacy