BBC

The complainant has requested information from the British Broadcasting Corporation (“BBC”) about demographics of listeners to BBC jazz programmes. The BBC responded that the requested information was covered by the derogation and hence 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 so was not covered by FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken in this case.