Use of types of websites accessed by Council staff for past three years
Received 22 April 2026
Please provide me with the following information for the previous three financial years (2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25):
- The number of times council computers or internet services were used to access Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney + in each of the requested years.
- The total number of search requests made for adult content websites on council computers or internet services. If this is too broad, please amend the search for any website containing the words ‘pornography’, ‘porn’ or ‘XXX’ in the URL, in each of the requested years.
Responded 21 May 2026
East Cambridgeshire District Council has blocks on inappropriate access to inappropriate, harmful or unproductive websites. The requested information is therefore not held.
The Council considers that the requested information falls within the Environmental Information Regulations (“EIR”), which relate to information on activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors of the environment.
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act;
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 12(4)(a) – Information Not Held
c) State why the exemption applies:
Regulation 12 (4) a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that
(a) it does not hold that information when an applicant’s request is received.