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.

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:

Create statutory requirement for BBC Weather to be provided by the UK Met Office