The complainant has requested information about the composition of the audience of a particular episode of Question Time and the criteria used to choose it. The BBC explained the information was covered by the derogation and excluded by the Act. The Commissioner’s decision is that this information was held by the BBC genuinely for the purposes of journalism and did not fall inside the Act. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no remedial steps to be taken.
Section of Act/EIR and Finding: FOI 1 – Complaint Not upheld
[2011] UKICO FS50401168
Bailii
England and Wales
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Updated: 10 January 2022; Ref: scu.530930