House of Commons - The implications of Cuts to the BBC World Service

Foreign Affairs Committee - Sixth Report
The implications of Cuts to the BBC World Service

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 4 April 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

Conclusions and recommendations

1 Introduction

2 Spending Review 2010 and the World Service

The scale of the cuts to the World Service

3 Proposed closures and service reductions

Job losses

Employees at risk

Closure of short-wave services

BBC Hindi

BBC China

BBC Arabic

4 Options for alternative funding of the World Service

Funding from DFID?

The International Development Act 2002 and the OECD Guidelines

Commercialisation

5 The future funding and governance of the World Service

Timing of the decision

Future governance arrangements

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

Oral and written evidence

9 March 2011

Written evidence