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Thorney Scrat Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:36 pm

REQUEST.
I want all food and drink expenses data relating to Sweeney and Panorama for the last 5 years,
and state what was paid by you and what was not. This should include all receipts, card payment
data etc. so we can get a full picture of the spending.

Provide current and recent BBC policy on food and drink expenses for Sweeney and Panorama. “

The information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes
of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ The BBC is therefore not obliged to provide this information to
you and wil  not be doing so on this occasion. Part VI of Schedule 1 to FOIA provides that
information held by the BBC and the other public service broadcasters is only covered by the Act
if it is held for ‘purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature”. The BBC is not required
to supply information held for the purposes of creating the BBC’s output or information that
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