Gong costs

At the end of December came this Freedom of Information enquiry...

Please give the cost of BBC entries for the Sony Awards in 2012 by each radio service. I want to know the amounts spent on entering these awards by Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales national and local radio, and English local radio.

Please give the amount spent by the BBC on tickets for the Sony Awards ceremony in 2012.

At the start of this month, the enquirer asked for an internal review, having only received a basic acknowledgement. And the review has said a response is being drafted urgently. At this year's prices, each entry costs the BBC £108 including VAT (not including the time the poor producer has spent getting the thing together).  I can't find the price of ceremony tickets, but three-course dinners plus coffee don't come cheap at the Grosvenor House, even if heavily sponsored, and even if the wine gets picked up on your boss/s tab.

Of course, we may find out that this information, in the view of the BBC, is held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature. This year's ceremony is on the 13th May.