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BBC (Decision Notice) [2011] UKICO FS50394881 (31 October 2011)
Summary: The complainant has requested information about how empty audience spaces are filled in shows such as Question Time. In particular he wanted to know if spaces were filled by volunteers. The BBC explained the information was covered by the derogation and therefore excluded from the FOIA. The Commissioner-™s decision is that this information was held by the BBC genuinely for the purposes of -˜journalism, art or literature-™ and did not fall inside the FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC-™s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Not upheld