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Philp Searle

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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 15)

BBC staff involved in undermining media competitor
Request to Office of Communications by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 16 May 2024.

Long overdue

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...
Charity activism. Cross charity unspervised ‘funding’.
Response by Charity Commission for England and Wales to Philp Searle on 29 November 2022.

Successful

Dear Philip Thank you for your enquiry regarding the public benefit requirement for charities. When a charity registers with the Commission, they...
How BBC Three will harm commercial smaller broadcasters, such as Channel 4 sale..
Request to Office of Communications by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 23 July 2021.

Long overdue

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...
Declared Corporation Tax (in the UK)
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Philp Searle on 11 May 2021.

Partially successful

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...
OFCOM's role in regulation all broadcasters (including the BBC)
Request sent to Office of Communications by Philp Searle on 6 August 2019.

Long overdue

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...
BBC and tax avoidence schemes
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Philp Searle on 12 April 2019.

Refused

Dear Mr Searle,                                              Please find attached the response to your request for information, reference RFI20190...
BBC White City, development of Luxury flats, Sheltered Housing and Corporation Tax
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Philp Searle on 17 December 2018.

Partially successful

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

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...
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...

This person's 21 annotations

BBC staff involved in undermining media competitor
Request to Office of Communications by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 16 May 2024.

Long overdue

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...
Mermaids
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Adam Rose. Annotated by Philp Searle on 3 November 2022.

Awaiting classification

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...
How BBC Three will harm commercial smaller broadcasters, such as Channel 4 sale..
Request to Office of Communications by Philp Searle. Annotated by Philp Searle on 23 July 2021.

Long overdue

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...
Guardian recruitment advertising
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Abdul Hai. Annotated by Philp Searle on 11 May 2021.

Refused

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...
How many Licenses have been cancelled since Feb 1st
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Chris Burton. Annotated by Philp Searle on 30 April 2019.

Refused

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...
How many Licenses have been cancelled since Feb 1st
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Chris Burton. Annotated by Philp Searle on 17 April 2019.

Refused

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...
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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