Submitted on Sunday 23rd August 2015
Rejected on Wednesday 26th August 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Keep the MET Office's BBC contract in place.
The MET Office is one of the finest meteorological institutions in the world. The BBC is dropping the contract it has with the MET Office because it claims it was forced by law to open up the tendering process to get better value. The BBC isn't getting better value it's getting a diminished service.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This isn’t something that the UK Government or Parliament would be able to do. The BBC is an independent body governed by a Royal Charter. Under the terms of that Charter, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and there is no provision for the government to intervene in the BBC’s day-to-day operations.
There is an open petition calling for the creation of a statutory requirement for BBC weather forecasts to be provided by the UK Met Office:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106538
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