Philp Searle

BBC White City, development of Luxury flats, Sheltered Housing and Corporation Tax

Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Philp Searle on 17 December 2018.

Awaiting classification.

Dear Philp Searle, Please find attached the response to your request for information, reference RFI20...

BBC public service charter being used to further 'clickbait'

Follow up sent to Office of Communications by Philp Searle on 5 December 2018.

Partially successful.

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 complain to the BBC di...

BBC music and knife crime facts

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 27 November 2018.

Long overdue.

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...

BBC Corporation tax abuses.

Request to National Audit Office by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 28 March 2018.

Successful.

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...

Charities (registered as Corporations) claiming refunds for tax they don't pay...

Request to Charity Commission for England and Wales by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 28 February 2018.

Information not held.

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...

Why is the BBC corporate structure is misleading to the public

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by J. Jones on 30 January 2018.

Refused.

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...

Not for purposes of journalism, art or literature but the number of (BBC) private limted companies

Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Philp Searle on 23 February 2017.

Successful.

Dear Philip Searle, Please find attached the response to your request for information, reference RFI20170224. Yours sincerely, The I...

Children in need

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 21 February 2017.

Information not held.

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...

Not Journalism, not Art or Literature but the EU

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 26 January 2017.

Partially successful.

Its relatively easy for the BBC to construct it own vision of world 'news' as having 'journalistic integrity' whilst denigration of any other reported...

List of FOI requests refused as "Journalism, Art or Literature"

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Perry Icso. Annotated by Philp Searle on 27 November 2018.

Successful.

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...

BBC music and knife crime facts

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 27 November 2018.

Long overdue.

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...

BBC music and knife crime facts

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 19 November 2018.

Long overdue.

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...

Clarification on Population Data BBC Uses

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by A. Edel. Annotated by Philp Searle on 28 March 2018.

Partially successful.

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...

BBC Corporation tax abuses.

Request to National Audit Office by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 28 March 2018.

Successful.

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...

BBC Corporation tax abuses.

Request to National Audit Office by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 5 March 2018.

Successful.

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...

Charities (registered as Corporations) claiming refunds for tax they don't pay...

Request to Charity Commission for England and Wales by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 28 February 2018.

Information not held.

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...

Why is the BBC corporate structure is misleading to the public

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 30 January 2018.

Refused.

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...

Source of funding other than the Britsh Taxpayer

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Joel Chacon. Annotated by Philp Searle on 11 December 2017.

Refused.

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...

Funding given to civil rights organisation LIberty

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Pat Hughes. Annotated by Philp Searle on 11 December 2017.

Information not held.

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...

Adam Hodkinson - Barcelona People Development Summit

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by James Bridges. Annotated by Philp Searle on 11 December 2017.

Successful.

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...

FOI - Gender Pay Gap

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Johnathan Kelly. Annotated by Philp Searle on 11 December 2017.

Partially successful.

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...

Gender toilets

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Benjy Potter. Annotated by Philp Searle on 11 December 2017.

Partially successful.

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...

Children in need

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 21 February 2017.

Information not held.

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...

Not Journalism, not Art or Literature but the EU

Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 26 January 2017.

Partially successful.

Its relatively easy for the BBC to construct it own vision of world 'news' as having 'journalistic integrity' whilst denigration of any other reported...

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