British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

The complainant submitted an information request to the BBC for a specific email sent from Laura Kuenssberg to Boris Johnson. The BBC responded that the requested information, if held, would be covered by the derogation and excluded from FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information, if held at all, is held by the BBC for the purposes of journalism, art or literature, so is not covered by FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position. The Commissioner does not require further steps, as a result of this decision notice.