BBC Private school employees statistics - U.K

Harry Harris made this Freedom of Information request to British Broadcasting Corporation

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From: Harry Harris

27 April 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

How many people who work for the BBC went to private school?

Yours faithfully,

Harry Harris

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From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation

28 April 2009

Dear Mr Harris,

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The reference number for your request is RFI20090629.

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S Garside left an annotation (20 May 2009)

Mr Harris,

I think anyone reading this request understands what you're getting at. However, I think the wording needs to be changed.
The BBC is a huge organisation with employees from the DG right the way to hundreds of cleaners.
I think you need to get hold of an organisation chart or the pay-scales, then pick a grade/salary, then ask "What percentage of BBC personnel at or above grade/salary X attended private schools?".

Also I doubt whether there's a tick-box on someone's personnel file that says "Public School", so it may be genuinely difficult for the BBC to give you an honest answer, so cutting down on the grades/salaries will not only give you the information you really want, it will make it more likely that the BBC can do it. I'm sure that the FOI act stipulates the the organisation only has to spend a certain amount of time on a request before it becomes "unreasonable".

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21 May 2009

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