This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 15)
Some confusion by OFCOM on who was responsible and who should be bought to account. I never mentioned Channels 4, as that is a totally different reques...
Dear Philip
Thank you for your enquiry regarding the public benefit requirement for
charities.
When a charity registers with the Commission, they...
OFCOM are investigating this request (which is serious enough for OFCOM to be involved with the BBC). Although the BBC can be expected to benefit from...
Dear Philp
Thank you for your email below dated 11.05.21. The amount of Corporation Tax paid by the BBC is available in the BBC Annual Report & Accoun...
I am struggling to understand the lack or regulation in the broadcasting sector when newspapers have agreed to be regulated by IPSO which works very w...
Dear Mr Searle,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20190...
Dear Philp Searle,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20...
Dear Tom Lancaster,
I have done as you asked and reported the the BBC complaint on the BBC link you included in your last email. I do not usually com...
The lack of meaningful response by the BBC has since been sent to The Mayor of London who may take legal action if the BBC persists in encouraging kni...
A link from the NAO which is: https://www.nao.org.uk/report/the-bbcs-commercial-activities-a-landscape-review/
Is a good indication of the BBC direct...
The BBC is not a charity (says the Charity Commision) which is fine but the BBC is caught once again abusing public funds to avoid tax through a privat...
Never mind Philip, the BBC's own female employees are going to bleed it dry very soon.......
They will have to put the licence up to over £200 - that...
Dear Philip Searle,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20170224.
Yours sincerely,
The I...
The question is still valid as almost the entire BBC is covered buy clauses that not factual information is extracted without a legal imperitive. In th...
Its relatively easy for the BBC to construct it own vision of world 'news' as having 'journalistic integrity' whilst denigration of any other reported...
This person's 21 annotations
Some confusion by OFCOM on who was responsible and who should be bought to account. I never mentioned Channels 4, as that is a totally different reques...
In short the BBC uses the BBC Charter clause to exonerate itself from criticism. It calls every BBC employee a 'Journalist' even though charity fundin...
OFCOM are investigating this request (which is serious enough for OFCOM to be involved with the BBC). Although the BBC can be expected to benefit from...
Without any doubt The Guardian provide most of the famous journalistic integrity that the BBC claims to be famous for. That and the fact that almost a...
In last weeks Sunday Times an ex BBC Director admitted the following (as this was published this week, there is no reason to withhold the TV license fi...
It would be intersting to compare BBC statistics from a previous request made in 2019 which (BBC) stated as having 25 million license fee holders regis...
Perry, too many requests for information here. A better request would be to find out how many identical responses are made (using the headline above) o...
The lack of meaningful response by the BBC has since been sent to The Mayor of London who may take legal action if the BBC persists in encouraging kni...
I'll take that as a No then. Not that the BBC would volunteer that they would appear to have any internal revue of public policy - if legally challenge...
So in short you are right. They won' t tell you and and they can make up the figures to show and ever increasing viewing and radio audience (outside t...
A link from the NAO which is: https://www.nao.org.uk/report/the-bbcs-commercial-activities-a-landscape-review/
Is a good indication of the BBC direct...
This is actually quite helpful even though the data is not held at NAO on this particular line of FOI enquiry it gives a helpful indication as to how i...
The BBC is not a charity (says the Charity Commision) which is fine but the BBC is caught once again abusing public funds to avoid tax through a privat...
The BBC legal team are relying on the 1927 interpretation of being a corporation that does not have to pay Corporation Tax (being as it were for public...
The BBC does accept funding for certain special interst groups that require a positive spin on bad news. This does not show in the BBC report and Accou...
I agree that this is total mis appropriation of TV taxpayers money and should be reported as such. They BBC have not responed and I doubt they will unl...
I think we can say the the BBC will file this as a 'Staff Training' at BBC expenses. Almost rude to enquire what it was (or for what purpose). Of cours...
Reading the BBC reply to the request is less than ingenious as the BBC has already admitted it is withlding 'higher' saleries than £150,000 into exclus...
Basically the BBC state that 'nothing has changed'. Which I think was the purpose of the enquiry that what the BBC often campiagns for (as a progressiv...
The question is still valid as almost the entire BBC is covered buy clauses that not factual information is extracted without a legal imperitive. In th...
Its relatively easy for the BBC to construct it own vision of world 'news' as having 'journalistic integrity' whilst denigration of any other reported...