This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Make the BBC accountable to the license payer regarding its spending.
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Every FOI request I have made to the BBC regarding costs to the license payer for programmes has been refused "as we are exempt from the FOI Act.
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