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[email protected] Information Policy & Compliance bbc.co.uk/foi bbc.co.uk/privacy Mark Salter Via email:
[email protected] 17th March 2015 Dear Mr. Salter Freedom of Information request – RFI20150307 Thank you for your request to the BBC of 24th February 2015 seeking the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: “Please provide the information you hold on the commisioning of a painting of a photograph of the Bullingdon Club photograph containing the then members David Cameron and Boris Johnson. I would be interested in having - the name of the company or artist commisioned - the dimensions of the painting and materials used - I presume on the commision to the artist. - the cost of the commision - the date the commision was made - the date the painting was accepted by the BBC - any justification made or given for this commision - the documented intended use of the painting - where it will be primarily be displayed, and how/where a member of the public might view it” The painting is retained by the artist , Rona Marsden and will go on exhibition in Oxford in April (Hemingway Art, Penwood House, Pound Lane, Cassington, Oxford OX29 4BN). The reasons for the commission were set out at the time by Michael Crick in a blog in 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/newsnight/2007/03/bullingdon_and_blair.html. Please note that the other information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ 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” 1.