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Cite as: [2011] UKICO FS50358104
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BBC (Decision Notice) [2011] UKICO FS50358104 (03 February 2011)
Summary: The complainant made a request to the BBC for a copy of a Panorama programme from 1987 entitled -Scientology - The Road to Total Freedom?- and, if held, a transcript of the programme. The BBC responded by stating that the requested information fell outside the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the -Act-) because it is information held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature. The Commissioner-s decision is that the information, to the extent that it exists, is genuinely held for the purposes of journalism. Therefore the Commissioner finds that the BBC was not obliged to comply with Parts I to V of the Act. This decision notice is currently under appeal to the Information Tribunal.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Not upheld