Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,

Please provide copies of the contracts or other formal agreements the BBC has with Popmaster Trading Ltd (company 08183157) and Popmaster Official Ltd (company 11762575). This information to include details of termination of said contracts.

Yours faithfully,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

I calculate that 25 working days have elapsed since I submitted my request. Please indicate when I may expect to receive a response.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

I calculate that 30 working days have elapsed since I submitted my request. Please indicate when I may expect to receive a response.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

I calculate that 49 working days have elapsed since I submitted my request. Please indicate when I may expect to receive a response.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

I calculate that 55 working days have elapsed since I submitted my request. Please indicate when I may expect to receive a response.

Thank you.

I would ask for an Internal Review but past experience suggests that would just delay your tardy response even more.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

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 'Popmaster'.

This request was originally submitted on 22nd January 2023 and no response has so far been forthcoming. BBC FOI sent an apology for the delay over a month ago, 7th March, with the reassurance "We are continuing to process it as a priority and will issue our response in due course.".

As of today, I calculate that at least 55 working days have passed since the request was submitted, which is simply unacceptable.

Despite numerous invitations to provide me with an expected or possible response date no such date has been provided.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Please do not allow this internal review to impede the glacial progress of my original request.

Yours faithfully,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

I calculate that an outrageous 70 working days have elapsed since I submitted my request. Please indicate when I may expect to receive a response.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

BBC FOI Enquiries,

I calculate that at least 75 working days have now elapsed since I submitted my request, making a mockery of your "at the latest within 20 working days" timescale given to me back on 23rd January.

Again, I ask, please indicate when I may expect to receive a response. A response would be nice.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

Many thanks for your response to my request for an internal review. Its contents comes as no surprise, of course. At least I can now refer it to the ICO for their attention.

I noted this comment in particular: "Please accept our apologies for this delay. I understand the response is being processed and will be sent to you shortly". It was two months ago, back on 7th March, that you told me "Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your FOI Request. We are continuing to process it as a priority and will issue our response in due course.".

Empty words.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

BBC FOI Enquiries,

I've honestly lost count now of the number of working days that have pased since I submitted my request, it must be around 80+ by now.

From the Internal Review of 4th May: " I understand the response is being processed and will be sent to you shortly". Nothing yet, so was that truth, or lie?

Again, I ask, please indicate when I may expect to receive a response. A response of any kind would be nice.

Submitted to the ICO for review on 8th May.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

Four months to say "No". Really? I was expecting you to say that my request had been delayed due to in-depth legal arguments about whether the information I asked for could be released. Instead it took four months to simply bat it away using a technicality.

If there was a FOI complaints process I would us e it. The BBC never fails to disappoint.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore

Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request a second internal review of British Broadcasting Corporation's handling of my FOI request 'Popmaster'.

My request was submitted and acknowledged on 23rd January 2023.

On 7th March you told me "Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your FOI Request. We are continuing to process it as a priority and will issue our response in due course.".

On 11th April I submitted a request for an Internal Review.

In your response of 4th May I was told ". I understand the response is being processed and will be sent to you shortly."

In your much-delayed response to my FOI request you finally told me "If held, the information you have requested is held for the purposes of ‘art, journalism or literature’".

Your responses of 7th March and 4th May suggested, to me at least, that a meaningful reply was to be anticipated. The "art, journalism or literature" derogation could have been used on either of those dates, or indeed, on the 24th January.

Please investigate and explain why it took somebody four months to compose this single cut-and-paste sentence.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Yours faithfully,

Mr A Willmore

Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am again writing to request an internal review of British Broadcasting Corporation's handling of my FOI request 'Popmaster'.

To be absolutely crystal clear, I am asking for an Internal Review in to your handling of my FOI request, not the request itself. Your response to the latter is clear and unambiguous.

I would like to know why it took four months to reject my request when that response could have been given so much sooner and have avoided wasting my time, your time, and that of the ICO.

My request for an Internal Review stands and relates only to your handling of my request. I would be happy to do this as a new FOI request if you prefer.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Yours faithfully,

Mr A Willmore

Dear FOI Enquiries,

Five months on, and I am just wondering how my Internal Review is progressing, acknowledged by you on 19th May 2023.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Willmore