House of Commons - BBC Licence Fee Settlement and Annual Report

Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Fourth Report
BBC Licence Fee Settlement and Annual Report

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 12 May 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 The negotiation process

The narrative of events

Settlement: Choice or coercion?

Independence

Transparency and accountability

3 Outcome

The BBC's defence of the settlement

The financial settlement and its critics

Wider concerns

4 New responsibilities

The BBC World Service

Strategic Review: Initial conclusions

Strategic Review: Outcome

The Strategic Review and the new settlement

6 Transparency and accountability

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

8 September 2010

15 December 2010

Written evidence