The complainant requested the compensation for loss of office or termination payments provided to senior managers at the BBC who had been made redundant in each of the previous three years. As part of the request, the BBC was asked to provide the name of the manager, their position and job title and the payment that the manager had received. The BBC responded by releasing the total payments received by each of the 115 managers covered by the scope of the request. However, the BBC refused to provide further details relating to the managers on the basis that this information constituted the managers’ personal data and that this data was exempt information for the purposes of section 40(2) (third party personal data) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Commissioner considers that the BBC has correctly applied section 40(2) of the Act and has therefore not upheld the complaint.
Section of Act/EIR and Finding: FOI 40 – Complaint Not upheld
References: [2011] UKICO FS50360146
Links: Bailii
Jurisdiction: England and Wales
Last Update: 25 October 2020; Ref: scu.530503
