Petition · past parliament
Discontinue plans to only keep BBC recipes online for 30 days
Rejected
18 signatures
What the petition asks
Plans announced on the 17th May 2016 have shown how the recipes on bbc.co.uk/food/ will only be kept online for 30 days following the programme in which they were first aired, after which they will be lost. Help petition the Government to keep the 11,000 recipes online permanently for all to use.
BBC article explaining proposed changes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36308976
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36308976
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
18
Status
Rejected
Rejected
17 May 2016
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.