BBC / BAA Fined - where's the money go?

[justinbaker]

Just read that the BBC has been fined £400,000 for missleading viewers, in phone in contests. Then there was the avaiation companies that were coluding then fined huge sums - millions in fact. OFfcomm £2 million for something else. British Gas has been fined £5,000 for keeping customers on hold on a premium rate telephone number.

So where does all this fine money go?

[dan1981]

What worries me more is Where the money COMES from??!!!

We pay for the BBC so are we now payings its fines as well??

Cheers

Dan

[Bri957]

Like most fines, it will likely go to the consolidated fund / ie the Treasury.

[Fer]

dan1981 said:

What worries me more is Where the money COMES from??!!!

We pay for the BBC so are we now payings its fines as well??

Cheers

Dan

"Because of the unique way we are funded..."

[steve240R]

What have BAA got to do with the aviation companies being fined for collusion on prices??

[mouseymousey]

The BBC fine is quite funny. We, as viewers, are misled and then we pay the fine. Genius.

[anonymous-user]

steve240R said:

What have BAA got to do with the aviation companies being fined for collusion on prices??

The BAA only own some U.K. airports, they certainly don't regulate any airlines.

I think the BA/Virgin Atlantic price fixing fine that BA had to pay went to the treasury.

[justinbaker]

Just been passed a few sheets of A4, with what BA had to pay out. for price fixing on fuel surcharge.

£121.5 Million to "the office of fair trading"

More on bbc news online!

[Rebuker]

justinbaker said:

Just been passed a few sheets of A4, with what BA had to pay out. for price fixing on fuel surcharge.

£121.5 Million to "the office of fair trading"

More on bbc news online!

These people?

[justinbaker]

It all goes in to the treasury coffers. Yet if you have Kidney Cancer - tough!
Its a horrible world.