Religious programming - breakdown of costs and hours of output

Vincent Aleck made this Freedom of Information request to British Broadcasting Corporation

The request was refused by British Broadcasting Corporation.

From: Vincent Aleck

17 May 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide a breakdown by year for the last 10 years, or all
the years records are available, showing:

a) BBC’s expenditure on, and
b) the number of hours of programming broken down by period (e.g.
“Monday-Friday 7-9pm”, “Sunday before 9am” – please use your own
scheme here if easier) of

religious programming of the following classes:
1) Christian beliefs
2) Jewish beliefs
3) Muslim beliefs
4) Hindu beliefs
5) Secular beliefs
6) Other religious beliefs - specified if information available

Please consider your response in light of the Information
Commissioner’s decision notice number FS50085710 of January 8th
2008 i.e. the acknowledgement that financial information is held
for operational reasons and has little bearing on creative decision
making.
(http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/d...)

Many thanks for your prompt reply.

Yours faithfully,

Vincent Aleck

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From: FOI Enquiries
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18 May 2009

Dear Mr Aleck,

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From: FOI Enquiries
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15 June 2009

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Dear Mr Aleck,

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2000.

<<RFI20090730 - final response.pdf>>

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