British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

The complainant has requested the BBC to disclose how much it spends each year on securing the right to broadcast the Glastonbury Festival over the last five years. BBC responded that the requested information was covered by the derogation and hence excluded from FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the requested information would be held by the BBC for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature’ and would therefore be outside the scope of FOIA. He therefore upholds the BBC’s position and requires no further steps to be taken.