BBC

The complainant asked the BBC for all information about ‘secondary explosions’ at the World Trade Centre between 9:00 and 18:00 on 11 September 2001. The BBC explained the information was covered by the derogation and excluded by the Act. The complainant referred this case to the Information Commissioner (‘the Commissioner’). 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 Act. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.