British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

The complainant has requested information about pension payments and the operation of the BBC Pension Scheme. The BBC provided a response to the first part of the request. It refused the remainder of the request stating that the requested information was held on behalf of BBC Pensions and was not held for the BBC’s own purposes. The Commissioner’s decision is that the requested information is not held by the BBC as per section 3(2) of FOIA – Information held on behalf of. The Commissioner does not require further steps.