Submitted on Sunday 23rd August 2015
Rejected on Wednesday 26th August 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Reinstate the Met Office as the BBC's weather service.
They are the national experts that set the standard for weather forecasting and have proven their skills over 90 years and are used by sailors, airmen, RNLI and the military alike. Any alternative would surely be a compromise.
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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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