Information Commissioner's Office

BBC

27 March 2007, Other

The complainant requested the amounts paid by the BBC to six insurers engaged by the BBC between 1995 to the present day. The BBC refused to disclose this information as the information requested was subject to section 43 of the Act – prejudice to commercial interests’. The Commissioner’s review of the application of section 43 found that the exemption was not engaged in respect of the information requested as the public authority had not demonstrated that disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the BBC or the insurers’ commercial interests. The Commissioner’s decision is to uphold the complaint and order the BBC to disclosure the requested information within 35 calendar days from date of this notice.

FOI 43: Upheld