BBC

The complainant has requested information concerning programmes which have been edited by the BBC to meet the expectations of a modern audience and the reasons why editing took place in each case. The BBC explained the information was covered by the derogation and excluded from the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information is held by the BBC for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature’ and does not fall inside FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.