BBC

The complainant has requested information about retainer payments made by BBC to its highest paid staff including Graham Norton and Mary Berry. The BBC explained the information was covered by the derogation and excluded from FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information was held by the BBC for the purposes of “journalism, art or literature” and did not fall inside FOIA. She therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.