Restructure BBC News and Current Affairs as a separately funded distinct unit.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

The Ofcom News Consumption Survey 2019, found a smaller proportion of BBC TV news viewers, consider it to be impartial than viewers of ITV, Channel 4 or Sky News. To enable management and real cultural change to address this, structural change is proposed.

Without structural change ( establishment of BBC News and Current Affairs as a distinct unit with defined and ring-fenced resources) management and cultural change will be unlikely to bring about improved impartiality. Excellent wildlife and dance programmes, high profile representations of diversity in the BBC are rightly highly valued, however they are distinct from the objective of improving the impartiality of BBC News and the editorial decisions it displays.

Why it was rejected

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

The structure of the BBC is an operational decision for BBC management, not the UK Government or Parliament. You could start a petition calling on the Government to provide the BBC with ring-fenced funding for BBC News if that is something you'd like to happen.

Timeline

7 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
18 Aug 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 18 Aug 2020

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