FOI reference: FOI-2025-2699
You asked
Please provide a list of Northern Ireland registered optical practices for year to date (i.e. Feb-25) or the latest available data (i.e. Q1-2024/25) including:
High priority:
- Practice name
- Address (incl. 6 digit postcode)
Lower priority:
- Owner and the owner’s age
- If available – year of registration and whether the registration was a new practice or acquired from a previous owner
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request enquiring information on registered practices in Northern Ireland.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the information you have requested as it is personal information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Regulation Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it a criminal offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board (ONS) for statistical purposes that would identify and individual. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual businesses can be identified can be identified, Section 44(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.
If you would like to discuss obtaining an output with aggregate data that would not disclose personal information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the team at idbrdas@ons.gov.uk.