Stop deleting educational resources from the BBC website like Recipes & iWonder

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government, in a white paper, says the BBC needs to be "more distinctive" and not compete with online newspapers.This means sections of the BBC website like recipes, iWonder, features, local news and travel will be deleted.These have already been paid for by licence fee payers and should not go.

"BBC has agreed to remove 11,000 recipes from its website as part of savings intended to stop it competing with newspapers"
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/17/online-recipes-off-the-menu-of-slimmed-down-bbc

“You wouldn’t want BBC to completely crowd out national newspapers. If you look at BBC website it is a good product but it is becoming a bit more imperial” George Osborne
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/05/osborne-accuses-bbc-of-imperial-ambitions-and-calls-for-savings

Why it was rejected

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

This decision is the responsibility of the BBC. 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.

Timeline

17 May 2016	Petition opened for signatures
17 May 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 17 May 2016

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