Thursday, May 15, 2014

Birthday greetings

I'm sorry to say I failed to mark the first birthday of this entertaining FoI request, filed in May 2013.

Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,

I understand that the head of HR at the BBC, Lucy Adams, has requested the results for the 30 departments/teams with the worst results in the BBC's 2012 Staff Survey, so that the reasons may be investigated. 

Would you please identify the 30 departments/teams she was referring to, and say in which divisions they are located. 

Yours faithfully, 

Spencer Count

By September 2013, the BBC had conducted its first internal review requested by the inquirer, which found that, yes sirree, the answer was late. In November, Mr Count complained to the ICO, and a second internal review said identifying the 30 unhappy teams could mean identifying individuals, but shared the divisional count of whingeing departments thus...















Mr Count responded straightaway by noting that the staff survey had been completed confidentially, and thus the argument of identifying individuals was nonsense. With no further response from Auntie, he asked for another internal review in January.  By February, he had a ten page response, saying the answer was Still No.

Mr Count took it to the ICO again in March, and this Tuesday wrote joyfully...

The ICO has ruled against the BBC and instructed it to disclose the information.


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