The Board of Governors meets once a month. The minutes of these meetings, which are the formal record of business, will be published on this site, within three weeks of their approval at the subsequent Board Meeting.
We aim to make as much of the minutes available as possible. However, there will be times when sections of the minutes will be withheld from publication. These will be kept to a minimum and clearly marked.
The reasons for withholding information are consistent with the Freedom of Information Act which applies to some of the BBC's information. See www.bbc.co.uk/foi for further explanation.
The minutes for the December 2006 meeting can be found here. The Governors' monthly Board meeting takes place over two days and minutes for each session are available. Details for all previous meetings are stored in the archive.
We will continue to publish a summary of the Board's business within two weeks of the meeting.
The summary for the December meeting can be found below. The minutes of this meeting will be published on or before the 23 January 2007.
The Board of Governors met on Thursday 16th November at the Media Centre, White City . Apologies were receiThe Board of Governors met on Thursday 14th December at the
Media Centre, White City. Apologies were received from Richard
Tait.
This was the final meeting of the Board of Governors under the
Royal Charter which ended on 31 December 2006.
The following directors attended for one or some agenda items:
Mark Thompson (Director-General), Mark Byford (Deputy
Director-General), John Smith (Chief Operating Officer), Zarin
Patel (Finance), Caroline Thomson (Strategy), Pat Loughrey
(Nations and Regions). Apologies received from Richard Tait.
Minutes of the Board of Governors' monthly meetings are
published on the Governors' website three weeks after their
approval. The minutes for the December meeting will be
published on or before 23 January 2007.
Prior to publication of the minutes, the Governors are committed
to providing an outline of the business taken within 2 weeks of
their meetings. At their meeting on 14th December business
included:
• Consideration of the business case for the BBC North project
(Salford)
• Updates on the BBC’s Change programme and property matters
• Consideration of a strategy for use of mobile technologies
• Allocation of spectrum on the Digital Terrestrial Transmission
network
• A report on the BBC Jam service
• Approval of guidelines for the coverage of the Northern Ireland
Assembly election and approval of party election broadcast
allocation criteria
• Confirmation of ‘Tier 2’ programming quotas for 2007
• Approval of new members, and extensions of membership to
the Broadcasting Councils in the Nations, who will transfer to the
new Audience Councils from 1 January 2007