BBC to do an Equality Impact Assessment on when it requires "balance".

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

The BBC has a remit to provide balance of opinion in political matters. This is essential in matters of elections and referenda but is often dispensed with in matters of fact or matters of discrimination and intolerance. The balance waiver should be applied equally across all equality strands.

When did you last see someone being interviewed on something like the gender pay gap, only to then to cut to a pseudo-academic sexist who says "actually this is a non-issue because women are only fit to be secretaries"? If they covered female genital mutilation they wouldn't have someone on saying "actually, we should cut more girls". There'd be questions in Parliament! Yet whenever the issue is transgender inequality they claim the need for "balance". It's pure bias and it furthers inequality.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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.

You might like to write to the BBC to make this suggestion.

Timeline

15 Mar 2016	Petition opened for signatures
24 Mar 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 24 Mar 2016

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