BBC Payola Neill Report
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Could you send me a copy of the Neill Report of the BBC from about 1971 that is digitally searchable, thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Shona Scott
Dear Shona Scott
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was
received on 12 July 2023. We will deal with your request as promptly as
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The reference number for your request is RFI20230936.
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Dear Shona,
Please find attached our response to your request for information,
reference RFI20230936.
Yours sincerely
BBC Information Rights
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Dear FOI Enquiries,
Thankyou for the reply, however the report is not digitally searchable as requested.
Yours sincerely,
Shona Scott
Dear FOI Enquiries,
The request is way overdue. Please reply within 14 days or I have no alternative but to contact the ICO
Yours sincerely,
Shona Scott
Dear FOI Enquiries,
The legal position is set out clearly here...
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/foi...
Please provide the Neill Report often referred to as BBC Payola Report in the digitally searchable format that I requested, in a single document, otherwise I have no alternative but to contact the ICO
Yours sincerely,
Shona Scott
Dear Shona,
A response to your request had been sent to you on the 27th July 2023. Please see attached.
Your sincerely,
Information Rights
BBC Legal | First Floor, Wogan House, 99 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7NY
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Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of British Broadcasting Corporation's handling of my FOI request 'BBC Payola Neill Report'.
Twicw I have asked for a digitally searchable copy of the 'BBC Payola Neill Report', twice the digitally searchable part has been ignored.
Provision of a digitally searchable copy is your duty under the act and this guidance makes that clear.
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/foi...
Please supply me with a digitally searchable copy of the report as request and carry out an internal review as to why the BBC is deliberately delaying this reasonable request.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/b...
Yours faithfully,
Shona Scott
Dear Shona Scott,
We write further to your email of 2 October 2023.
Please find attached the disclosure bundles, which have been made
searchable, as far as possible, with the Optical Character Recognition
tool.
We have now closed this matter on file.
Yours sincerely,
BBC Information Rights,
BBC Legal
1^st Floor, BBC Wogan House,
99 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 7NY
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