Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 122646

BBC World Service: Political Impartiality

Tabled: 23 March 2026
Answered: 26 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Mr Gregory Campbell

Democratic Unionist PartyEast Londonderry

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the BBC on the impartiality of the BBC World Service.

Answer

Chris Elmore
The BBC is editorially and operationally independent. The BBC World Service is bound by the same requirements of impartiality and accuracy as all other parts of the BBC, as set out in the organisation's editorial guidelines, available here: https://www.bb...

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