| Heading: |
BBC: Finance |
| Question ID: |
1784680 |
| UIN: |
HL5789 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4238 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Storey
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| Asking Member handle: |
LordStorey
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LordStorey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether their reduction of funding for international aid will affect the funding given to the BBC. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
3972 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
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| Answering Member handle: |
JennyChapman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JennyChapman
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| Answer text: |
HM Government highly values the BBC World Service. That is why HM Government is providing the BBC World Service with a funding uplift of £32.6 million (31 per cent) in 2025/26, taking HM Government's total contribution to £137 million.The Prime Minister a... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |