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Peter Martin
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2013
Used to run an ad agency. Now I write & design stuff. Plus try & make the world a better place for my kids. Mostly involving reducing waste & increasing efficiencies. This seems to have seen me cross swords with officialdom. I also fight hypocrisy, sharp practice & cover-up attempts with such as the BBC, NHS & a raft of ineffective quangos or ombudsmen. Hence erring to people power, based on the power of shared knowledge. The weasel classes seem to hate that. Good. https://twitter.com/junkkmale
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 28)
Local Democracy Award Assignment
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Peter Martin
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request...
County Councillor Travel Expenses
Response by Herefordshire Council to Peter Martin on .
Partially successful.
Dear Sir,
Please see the attached.
Kind regards
Christine
[1]age
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Christine Dallow ...
Editorial Guidelines terminology definitions
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached our response to your request for information
reference RFI20182025.
Yours sincerely,
Informatio...
Repeating Complaints Issues promised not to be repeated.
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin
Please find attached the BBC’s response to your internal review request
(IR2018028).
Best wishes
BBC Information Righ...
Mechanisms express concerns on BBC staff or programme social media accounts
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Martin
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20171895.
Kind regards
Information Ri...
Dear Peter Martin
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI201...
The BBC and the Twitter blue verification award
Follow up sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Information not held.
I asked:
1) What BBC official accounts have the Twitter verification?
2) What BBC staff, BBC-branded accounts have the Twitter verification?
3...
BBC fact checking the BBC
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Peter Martin,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20170275.
Yours sincerely,
The In...
Clarifying vague BBC/staff claims of public inclusivity and/or national representation
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20170213
Yours sincerely,
Informatio...
The capacity of the BBC Head of News to assess objectivity to justify claims
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20170208
Yours sincerely,
The Informa...
What objective, impartial systems are used to select what BBC Trending then features?
Follow up sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Long overdue.
"While, if, and to the extent that the BBC holds the information you have requested for, it is
excluded from the Act because it is held for the pu...
Variable payments of appearance fees and/or travel expenses
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20160171
Yours sincerely,
The Informa...
Editorial Guidelines - political extremity definitions and scales
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20152098.
Kind regards
BBC Workplace and...
Right of reply requests made and granted
Follow up sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Refused.
'The information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes
of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ The BBC is ther...
Tweets quoting anonymous sources
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Thank you for your recent request for information. Please find the response attached.
Yours sincerely,
The Information Policy and Co...
Use of 'quotes' or "quotes", or not, on BBC twitter pages
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Thank you for your email, in relation to your FOI request about the use of quotes (Reference: RFI20152027). As stated in our email to...
BBC measures of 'balance' or 'impartiality'
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20152028
Yours sincerely,
The Inform...
BBC headlines/copy based on substantiated, vs. unsubstantiated "quotes" or 'quotes'
Follow up sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Per advice from this site, it looks like ICO and/or 'other means' are next steps.
It may be helpful if I explain that what the BBC considers derog...
Removal of comments to previously opened HYS threads
Internal review request sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Refused.
"The information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes
of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ The BBC is t...
BBC Have Your Say Thread Opening and Closing Times & Rationales
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Partially successful.
Dear Peter Martin,
Thank you for your recent request for information. Please find the
response attached.
Yours sincerely,
Th...
Staff Twitter Mastheads
Follow up sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Refused.
It is maybe I who should apologise... clearly?
I appear to have misunderstood what this meant as explained to me previously:
"Appeal Rights
I...
BBC Staff Twitter Accounts
Follow up sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Refused.
I have written to the ICO following refusal of this request.
I write because I would appear to have no other option, given this key paragraph:
--...
BBC Complaints Expediting and DPA Breaches
Clarification sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Peter Martin on .
Long overdue.
"Your request as it is currently worded is not sufficiently clear to enable the BBC to locate or identify the information you have asked for."
I...
BBC-sponsored political investigations/features
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Thank you for your recent request for information. Please find the
response attached.
Yours sincerely,
The Informati...
BBC FOI submissions to others
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Peter Martin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Martin,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20150807.
Yours sincerely
BBC Inform...
This person's 19 annotations
BBC and Capita
Long overdue.
Naive of me possibly, but I have trouble coping with the notion of public sector and public-paid employees whose job description is providing informati...
TV Licence Public Opinion
Refused.
To be fair, having teeth pulled is a still a voluntary (if unpleasant) act one can engage with or not. And often necessary.
The BBC is not, as it cl...
"The information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ "
In the media i...
Refusing requests
Successful.
Excellent.
To the point and, crucially, short.
I tried something similar recently, and made the mistake of collating a series of related, linked q...
I don't know if any more experienced users can advise, but I was going to 'update status' using the official form, but really none properly apply, henc...
BBC Staff Twitter Accounts
Refused.
To: A Willmore
Tx for this. No real surprise, but still disappointing.
Very much 'Beware of the Leopard' logic from the ICO in support of the BBC,...
BBC Staff Twitter Accounts
Refused.
To: A Willmore
Tx for your annotation; hope this is the correct way to reply to it as the 'reply' option goes to BBC FOI.
Your 5/3/13 submission...
Freedom of information request handling by BBC
Partially successful.
I will be following the progress of this request with interest.
News media avoiding answering questions on such a basis sets an interesting preceden...
"It is of my opinion that the applicant’s request can be determined as a ‘fishing expedition’, and that the BBC therefore acted within their righ...
Effects of Newswatch
Refused.
Noting:
"Since I'm not asking for details, I'll complain to the information commissioner about the use of 'journalism, art and literature' to evade...
Savilles Wage
Successful.
Thanks Mark.
I am still 'learning' the FOI system before I engage, and while it seems it has its own loophole opportunities for skilled duckers and di...
Savilles Wage
Successful.
More a question to those experienced in the FoI system and this site, but given what appears a successful outcome (albeit painfully derived) to the inf...
BBC Information Tribunal Legal Costs
Awaiting internal review.
Still quite new to this excellent facility, and coming to appreciate the skills... and patience... of those embracing it.
However as I start to follo...
Paedophile
Successful.
@Mark
You are quite right on the best procedural approach.
However I might suggest that while asking here may not solicit any response, it is most...
Paedophile
Successful.
As any who has had the misfortune to deal with the Beware of the Leopard logic that epitomises BBC complaints, once polite logic and persistence gets t...
Legal costs for Lord McAlpine Libel
Successful.
Congrats to Mr. Lee-Koo on the eventual tearing from living flesh the actual requested figures, but I remain bit intrigued by the timeline and process,...
Savilles Wage
Successful.
There seems now to be somewhat of an impasse between the BBC being determined to scan electronically but then send hard copy, presumably printed out an...
Paedophile
Successful.
The responses so far appear to following a predictable path.
Delay followed by a distraction couched as a concession, all designed to ensure you don't...
Savilles Wage
Successful.
Today is the publication of the Pollard Report detail, though apparently without any detail. 'Redacted' appears the favoured term, though some are call...