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Freedom of Information Act Cost BBC £3m

on September 7, 2009 2:59 am / 2 comments

 

The Guardian Newspaper has reported that the BBC was forced to spend over £3 million of licence payers fees on providing Freemdom of Information Act requests between 2005 and 2009.

Ironically, The Guardian obtained this information via the Freemdom of Information Act.  

However the report doesn’t mention how many stories are broken by the BBC by using the Act. Read the report there

 

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  • Bill Jones

    So, the BBC is whining that obeying the law is costing it 3% of what it pays to advertise itself on Google?

  • WhizzKid

    I wonder why this mysterious Freemdom of Information Act is so expensive? Haven't they tried using the Freedom of Information Act?