BBC

The complainant made a request to the BBC for the terms of engagement and fees relating to its employment of David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan as part of the commentating team for Formula 1 coverage. 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 is genuinely held for the purposes of journalism. The Commissioner therefore finds that the BBC was not obliged to comply with Parts I to V of the Act.