Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 89121

BBC: Political Impartiality

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Alex Easton

IndependentNorth Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with the BBC Board on the editing of a speech by the President of the United States on 6 January 2021 in an edition of Panorama broadcast in October 2024;

Answer

Ian Murray
The Secretary of State has been speaking regularly to the Chair of the Board in relation to the points raised in a letter written by Michael Prescott, a former independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC). Dr Samir ...

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