BBC

The complainant has requested information concerning how many complaints were received by the BBC in relation to a specific programme which was broadcast in July 2013. 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.