Sumo Guy Costs

Is it possible under the Freedom of Information Act to advise me how much Paul McGee aka The Sumo Guy was paid for his motivational speaking.

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

This information is exempt under Section 40(2): Personal information. Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if -

(a) it constitutes personal data which does not fall within subsection (1) (your own personal data), and

(b) either the first or the second condition below is satisfied>

(3) The first condition is:-

(a) in a case where the information falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of "data" in section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998, that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene:-

(i) any of the data protection principles, or

(ii) section 10 of that Act (right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress), and

(b) in any other case, that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene any of the data protection principles if the exemptions in section 33A(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (which relates to manual data held by public authorities) were disregarded.

(4) The second condition is that by virtue of any provision of Part IV of the Data Protection Act 1998 the information is exempt from section 7(1)(c) of that Act (data subject's right of access to personal data).

This is an absolute exemption.