Information Commissioner's Office

BBC

2 October 2014, Other

The complainant has requested information on the operating costs of four regional services. The BBC explained that the information was covered by the derogation and excluded from FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information was held by the BBC for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature’ and did not fall inside FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case. Information Tribunal appeal EA/2014/0298 dismissed.

FOI 1: Not upheld