House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee

Foreign Affairs Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
The Implications of Cuts to the BBC World Service

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 4 April 2011.

Oral Evidence

Taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee

on Wednesday 9 March 2011

Members present:

Richard Ottaway (Chair)	Andrew Rosindell
Mr Bob Ainsworth	Mr Frank Roy
Mr John Baron	Sir John Stanley
Sir Menzies Campbell	Rory Stewart
Mike Gapes	Mr Dave Watts

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CONTENTS

Examination of Witnesses

Witnesses: Luke Crawley, Assistant General Secretary, BECTU, and Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists (NUJ), gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-33

Witnesses: Peter Horrocks, Director, BBC World Service, Jim Egan, Controller, Strategy and Distribution, BBC Global News, and Richard Thomas, Chief Operating Officer, BBC Global News, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

34-93

Witness: Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

94-123