Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2007-08 - Foreign Affairs Committee Contents


Letter to BBC World Service from the Committee Specialist

  The World Service's Annual Report states that its financial position moved from an operating surplus of £11.4 million in 2007 to an operating deficit of £0.2 million in 2008 (p31). However, during the Committee's oral evidence session with the British Council on 15 October, Richard Thomas stated that the Service's operating deficit was £2.8 million. (Q133)

  The Committee would be grateful if the World Service could clarify the reason for this difference by 15 December 2008.

8 December 2008



 
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