Adding up time

The BBC thinks we're not entitled to discover the cost of the Pollard Review under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, but, most generously, they're going to published them anyway - in two months' time.

We consider that the Pollard Review, being directed to the maintenance and enhancement of the standards and quality of the BBC’s journalism, and materials related to it are held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature and therefore outside the scope of the Act. Nevertheless, on this occasion, the BBC has now published the appendices and other material relating to the inquiry, and details of the associated costs will also be published in due course.

Students of FOI responses will have noticed a much tougher line taken recently by the BBC on information "held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature". When they resume their publication online (how long does it take to build a website) we can perhaps see the trend.