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Force the BBC to continue to employ the services of the Met Office.

Submitted on Tuesday 25th August 2015

Rejected on Friday 4th September 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Force the BBC to continue to employ the services of the Met Office.

Petition Details

The BBC have announced the Met Office contract to supply forecasts is to be terminated.

Additional Information

The Met Office currently fulfills this obligation to the highest quality with a standard unmatched in international circles.


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This petition was rejected

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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