5 October 2015, Other
The complainant has requested the number of complaints made about perceived political bias. The BBC explained 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 steps to be taken in this case.
FOI 1: Not upheld