BSCC-FOI-0724-HD: services rendered to film and television productions
Updated 10 July 2024
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From:
Tony Eastaugh CBE
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
28 June 2024
To: [redacted]
Ref: BSCC-FOI-0724-HD
Letter by email
Dear [redacted]
I write in response to an email received by my office on 22 June 2024, in which you asked:
“Under the Freedom of Information Act, for the tax years 2014/15 to 2022/23 inclusive, please would you please fully disclose the following details, breaking the figures by year:
1. How much revenue has been received by your organisation for services rendered to film and television productions? This could include location rental, permits and all other services related to film productions using your personnel or resources.
2. Please outline the type of work or service rendered, in each case and disclose the revenue received for each type of service.
3. How much has your organisation spent on facilitating such arrangements between 2014/15 to 2022/23, inclusive, broken down by year?”
Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The Office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner was established in 2021, after the two separate offices (the Office of the Biometrics Commissioner, and the Office of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner) were merged when Professor Fraser Sampson was appointed to both roles in March 2021.
We do not hold any record of any such filming having taken place since the establishment of the office in 2021, nor for either of the precursor offices.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference, BSCC-FOI-0724-HD. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Mark Greenhorn
14th Floor Lunar House Building
40 Wellesley Road, Croydon
CR9 2BY
e-mail: Sciencesupportfoi@homeoffice.gov.uk
As part of any internal review, our handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Kind regards,
Tony Eastaugh CBE
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
Email: enquiries@obscc.org.uk