BBC World Service: CMS Committee to question past and current senior BBC figures on challenges and funding
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee will question both past and current senior figures from the BBC as part of its short inquiry into the World Service.
Meeting details
The Committee is examining the services the World Service provides, how it is paid for, the challenges it faces operating around the world, and the pressures funding the World Service from the licence fee places on other services provided by the corporation.
In the first oral evidence session of the new Parliament, MPs will first hear from two current senior World Service executives, before questioning former BBC Chair Richard Sharp and Richard Sambrook, Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University and previously Director of BBC News and the World Service.
The inquiry is running alongside another on the World Service from the Foreign Affairs Committee, which will hold an evidence session in the afternoon focussing on the World Service’s soft power and the long-term viability of its funding model.