Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 89121
BBC: Political Impartiality
Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025
Question
Alex Easton
Independent — North 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 MurrayThe 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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