Rejected petition BBC not renewing contract with the Met Office

we have been told the reason is that the BBC have to get the best deal for their licence holders....in that case they should be consulting the likes of me and other licence holders for our opinion

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This isn’t something that the UK Government or Parliament would be able to do. 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.

There is an open petition calling for the creation of a statutory requirement for BBC weather forecasts to be provided by the UK Met Office:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106538

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 25 August 2015
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