BBC

The complainant has requested from the BBC any correspondence between Alan Yentob and BBC staff members about the charity ‘Keeping Kids Company’. After investigation, the Information Commissioner has found that the information sought by the complainant is not held by the BBC for the purposes of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the BBC is entitled to rely on section 3(2)(a) of FOIA and that other 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 remedial steps to be taken in this case.