Petition · past parliament
Save the BBC's recipe archive!
Rejected
14 signatures
What the petition asks
The BBC recipe resource is an archive of thousands of recipes gathered over years. Why throw it away?
Providing 'Distinctive content' means not spending fortunes on popular entertainment that can be provided by the commercial sector, not deleting content that has already been created, and costs little to maintain.
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
14
Status
Rejected
Rejected
17 May 2016
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.