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PREM19/1677
Broadcasting (Television licence fees: report by Professor Alan Peacock's Committee on Financing the BBC; BBC accounts) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 137
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Date Value Title
85 Apr 4 Th Major Broadcasting: Chairman of the BBC letter to Brittan (treatment of capital expenditure in published accounts) [will obtain an independent opinion on whether practices need to change] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Chairman of the BBC (“BBC accounts”) [“should reflect the depreciation of fixed assets, according to normal commercial practice”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 24 We Major Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [“Peacock committee”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 3 Fr Major Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to Biffen PS (economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the BBC) [National Audit Office scrutiny of Home Office role] [declassified 2014]
85 May 8 We Major Broadcasting: Biffen PS letter to Brittan PS (economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the BBC) [National Audit Office scrutiny of Home Office role] [declassified 2014]
85 May 9 Th Major Broadcasting: Brittan minute to MT (“Peacock committee”) [responses from proposed members of new committee on financing of the BBC] [declassified 2014]
85 May 14 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the BBC) [MT requests advice on National Audit Office scrutiny of Home Office role] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 26 We Major Broadcasting: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“BBC External Services: Three-Year Funding”) [clash of views over Howe proposal for additional funding] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 22 Mo Major Broadcasting: Rees letter to Howe (“BBC External Services: Three Year Funding”) [“not… convinced that three year funding… requires additional money”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 9 Mo Major Broadcasting: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“BBC External Services: Three Year Funding”) [the proposal “is central to the Perry review and BBC agreement to your proposals for current expenditure removes the last major obstacle to its implementation”] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 4 Mo Major Broadcasting: John MacGregor letter to Hurd (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 6 We Major Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Norgrove (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
85 Nov 27 We Major Broadcasting: Hurd letter to John MacGregor (“BBC accounts”) [will urge the BBC to change “misleading” accounting practice] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo Major Broadcasting: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Review of BBC External Services”) [MT request to be consulted about Government reaction to Report] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 9 Mo Major Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [“The Peacock report on the BBC”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 11 We Major Broadcasting: Hurd minute to MT (“Peacock report”) [Committe maps out “ultimate goal of a completely unregulated market” outwith its terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 25 We Major Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whitelaw, Hurd, Tebbit, Channon, John Wakeham) [“Peacock Report”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 30 Mo Major Broadcasting: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (draft oral statement on Peacock Report) [financing the BBC; diversity of choice; competitive tendering; regulation; privatising radio] [declassified 2014]