Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant made an information request to the British Broadcasting Corporation (the -�BBC-�) for information about complaints from viewers, victims and insiders made to it in connection with a Panorama investigation. The BBC refused to provide the requested information claiming that it was outside the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (-�the Act-�) because it was held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature. The Commissioner is satisfied that the information in question was held to a significant extent for the purposes of journalism, art or literature. Therefore the BBC was not obliged to comply with Parts I to V of the Act.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Not upheld