Babita Sharma is presenting on NC/World right now. Out of interest, although
Newsday
is on hiatus, who are its actual presenters now? Kasia Madera and Sharanjit Leyl? I haven't seen Babita on that programme for months and Rico left.
London: Babita Sharma and Kasia Madera. As Worzel correctly points out, Babita has been on maternity leave.
Singapore: Sharanjit Leyl and Mariko Oi. Mariko will also go on maternity leave soon. Karishma Vaswani will fill in. She’s already started some programmes ever since Rico left to CNN.
Several people have already put in FoI requests about BBC staff furloughing on whatdotheyknow.com so I daresay an answer will emerge soon.
I really wish people wouldn't undermine the FoI process by abusing it just to satisfy their curiosity rather than for information that absolutely needs to be in the public domain.
But who is the arbiter of what is and what isn't something that needs to be in the public domain, and what is and what isn't a legitimate information for wanting to know? The information is either 'free' or it isn't.
Who is the arbiter? Usually it's the head of legal or corporate affairs who has the final say on whether anything is FOI and can be released, or the requester is just being plain nosey.
And, FOI is not the magic bullet people think it is. There are plenty of reasons the public bodies can withold information - for commercial/business sensitivity, or private and personal security reasons - and why if you managed to get the documents, some things in the released documents may be redacted under nice rectangular blocks produced in word.
Babita Sharma is presenting on NC/World right now. Out of interest, although
Newsday
is on hiatus, who are its actual presenters now? Kasia Madera and Sharanjit Leyl? I haven't seen Babita on that programme for months and Rico left.
Kasia isn't presenting 'Newsday' slots at the moment anyway presenting 8pm-10pm slot
There are two arbitars. Firstly and the local level when you go to the organization first, to ask for the FOI information. If they say 'no', - then the second (and last line of attack) is to go the ICO and complain citing the reason why you want the information, and the reason said organization said no to you was wrong.
Then, the ICO will investigate and all decisions are final.