Philp Searle
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 15)
BBC staff involved in undermining media competitor
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 .
Successful
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...
Declared Corporation Tax (in the UK)
Response by British Broadcasting Corporation to Philp Searle on .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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
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.
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...
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...
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 .
Successful
Dear Philip Searle,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20170224.
Yours sincerely,
The I...
Children in need
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
BBC music and knife crime facts
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
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
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Funding given to civil rights organisation LIberty
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...
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
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
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
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
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...