Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 11611

Lebanon: BBC World Service

Tabled: 29 October 2024

Answered: 14 November 2024

Question

Blair McDougall

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of Russian-backed media transmitting on the radio frequency previously occupied by the BBC World Service's Arabic statio

Answer

Mr Hamish Falconer

The BBC is editorially and operationally independent and makes its own decisions about where to broadcast, audiences to reach and content. The BBC Arabic language service continues to operate and reaches a weekly average audience of 35 million people acro...

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