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1606763

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date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC Radio: Local Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions her Department has had with the BBC Board on the provision of BBC local radio services.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	172507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important role that the BBC’s local radio services play in terms of the provision of local news and information, and of community engagement in the local area.</p><p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the Government as set out in its Royal Charter, and decisions on service delivery and how it consults with audiences are a matter for the BBC. However, we are disappointed that the BBC is planning to reduce parts of its local radio output. In the Department’s regular conversations with the BBC, we have been clear that it must make sure it continues to provide distinctive and genuinely local radio services, with content that reflects and represents people and communities from all corners of the UK.</p><p>The Government also expects Ofcom, as regulator of the BBC, to ensure the BBC is robustly held to account in delivering its public service duties. Ofcom recently published a new BBC Operating Licence, which sets out that it will hold the BBC to its commitments on local radio in England in relation to news and travel, breaking news and major incidents and its contribution to local democracy.</p><p>Under the new Operating Licence, the BBC will be required to monitor the impact of changes on audiences and publish more information about how it delivers high quality, distinctive content and services for audiences across the UK. Ofcom monitor the BBC’s performance in this area closely and step in if they are concerned the BBC is not delivering for audiences. Ofcom also plans to commission new research to better understand what audiences need and value from local services.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 172508 question first answered 31/03/2023 13:51:05 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1606764

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC Radio: Local Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to help ensure that there is a public consultation with listeners on the planned changes to BBC local radio services.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	172508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important role that the BBC’s local radio services play in terms of the provision of local news and information, and of community engagement in the local area.</p><p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the Government as set out in its Royal Charter, and decisions on service delivery and how it consults with audiences are a matter for the BBC. However, we are disappointed that the BBC is planning to reduce parts of its local radio output. In the Department’s regular conversations with the BBC, we have been clear that it must make sure it continues to provide distinctive and genuinely local radio services, with content that reflects and represents people and communities from all corners of the UK.</p><p>The Government also expects Ofcom, as regulator of the BBC, to ensure the BBC is robustly held to account in delivering its public service duties. Ofcom recently published a new BBC Operating Licence, which sets out that it will hold the BBC to its commitments on local radio in England in relation to news and travel, breaking news and major incidents and its contribution to local democracy.</p><p>Under the new Operating Licence, the BBC will be required to monitor the impact of changes on audiences and publish more information about how it delivers high quality, distinctive content and services for audiences across the UK. Ofcom monitor the BBC’s performance in this area closely and step in if they are concerned the BBC is not delivering for audiences. Ofcom also plans to commission new research to better understand what audiences need and value from local services.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 172507 question first answered 31/03/2023 13:51:05 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1606765

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Political Impartiality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of the BBC's use of externally contracted presenters on the impartiality of its output and content.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	172509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>The impartiality of the BBC, as a publicly-funded broadcaster, goes to the very heart of the contract between the Corporation and all the licence fee payers it serves. This is why the BBC’s Royal Charter enshrines the need for the BBC’s services and output to be impartial.</p><p>The Charter guarantees the BBC’s operational and editorial independence, which means that it is for the BBC itself to determine how to deliver impartiality in its output. This would include the BBC’s approach to using externally contracted presenters and what impact that has on the impartiality of its output and content.</p><p>The Government stands fully behind the requirements of the Royal Charter, and has been clear that the BBC must place a firm emphasis on impartiality and maintaining the highest editorial standards. It can never be the BBC’s role to judge, or appear to judge, the diverse values of people from across the country it serves. In an era of fake news, public service broadcasting and a free press have never been more important, and the BBC has been, and should be, a beacon that sets standards to which others can aspire.</p><p>The Government established Ofcom as the independent regulator of the BBC in 2017, and it remains a priority for the Government to work with Ofcom to deliver an effective and proportionate regulatory framework that holds the BBC to account while maintaining its creative freedom and operational independence. Ofcom is responsible for the regulation of editorial standards, and can consider complaints about BBC content, including accuracy and impartiality.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 31/03/2023 09:01:24 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1606828

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Digital Broadcasting and Radio
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including measures on supporting providers of (a) radio and (b) other audio services on digital platforms in the forthcoming Media Bill.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	172393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has today published Command Paper CP 822, which contains a draft Media Bill.</p><p>The draft Bill contains measures which will ensure that UK radio remains available to listeners via their smart speakers over the coming years, while providing scope for innovative collaboration and partnerships between stations and the smart speaker platforms.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 172395 172490 172543 question first answered 29/03/2023 14:40:24 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1606840

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Music
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with the BBC on funding for BBC Orchestras and Singers.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	172464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>Operational and editorial decisions are independent of Government and are a matter for the BBC.</p><p>I met the BBC on 22 March to discuss a range of issues.</p><p>The BBC announced on 24 March that it will suspend the proposal to close the BBC Singers, and will continue to engage with the Musicians' Union and the other BBC Unions about its proposals regarding the BBC's English Orchestras.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 30/03/2023 08:20:01 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq