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date	26/01/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her announcement on 17 January 2022 that BBC funding will be frozen for the next two years, whether she will take steps to protect funding for programming in the UK's minority languages.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	112728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government has a strong record of demonstrating its commitment to minority language broadcasting to ensure that our broadcasting sector services all audiences of the UK nations and regions.</p><p>The BBC’s Royal Charter is an important way of delivering on this. One of the BBC's Public Purposes is to &quot;reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom&quot;. The BBC also has a general duty under Diversity to &quot;support the regional and minority languages of the United Kingdom through its output and services and through partnerships with other organisations&quot;.</p><p>I recognise the incredibly valuable contribution that our minority language broadcasters make, and the licence fee settlement will continue to support these contributions by providing the BBC with billions in annual public funding, allowing it to deliver its mission and public purposes and to continue doing what it does best.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 31/01/2022 09:48:50 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1314011

registered interest
date	12/05/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing Government funding of public broadcasting to tackle the BBC funding shortfall.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>The government will assess the merits of increasing funding for the BBC as part of the ongoing licence fee settlement negotiations, which began on 10 November 2020.</p><p>The Secretary of State has written to the BBC and S4C setting out the key factors they should consider when submitting their requests for the next settlement period, as is required by the Charter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 24/05/2021 14:17:46 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1252285

registered interest
date	16/11/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the BBC on holding a public consultation on (a) offering monthly license subscriptions and (b) other future funding proposals.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	115571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2020 answer text <p>It is already possible to pay for a TV licence in monthly instalments. More information is set out on the TV Licensing website: <a href="https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/pay-for-your-tv-licence/ways-to-pay" target="_blank">https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/pay-for-your-tv-licence/ways-to-pay</a>.</p><p>The government has no plans to offer a public consultation on TV licence payment plans at this time.</p><p>On future funding proposals, the government has committed to maintain the licence fee funding model for the duration of this 11 year Charter period, until 2027.</p><p>The Secretary of State has recently written to the BBC and S4C to begin the process of setting the licence fee for at least 5 years from April 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 19/11/2020 16:38:51 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond