Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 75580

BBC: Local Broadcasting

Tabled: 8 September 2025

Answered: 11 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Mr Gregory Campbell

Democratic Unionist Party — East Londonderry

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will have discussions with the Director General of the BBC on increasing locally (a) produced and (b) sourced (i) radio and (ii) television output.

Answer

Ian Murray

Under its current Charter, the BBC has an obligation to ‘reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions’. Ofcom sets specific obligations for the BBC on programme making in the nations and regions i...

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