Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 28444
BBC Monitoring and BBC World Service: Finance
Tabled: 4 February 2025
Answered: 10 February 2025
Named DayQuestion
Sir Julian Lewis
Conservative — New Forest East
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on how much and what proportion of the annual budgets of the BBC (a) World Service and (b) Monitoring Service are funded by FCDO; and wh
Answer
Mr Hamish FalconerThe Government provides approximately one-third of the funding for the BBC World Service, with the remainder funded from the BBC Licence Fee. The BBC are operationally and editorially independent and set the budget for the World Service. The Foreign, Comm...
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