Committees

The future of the BBC World Service

Inquiry

This inquiry asks how the BBC World Service is funded and run, and whether the reduction of funding will have an impact on the UK’s soft power abroad.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 4:55pm on 25 November 2024.

Upcoming events

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Past events

Tuesday 19 November 2024
1:30pm Private
2:00pm Public
The future of the BBC World Service - Oral evidence 19 November 2024
2:00pm
  • Dr Nicholas Westcott (Former UK Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and Niger; former High Commissioner to Ghana and Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London)
  • Dr Jieun Kiaer (Young Bin Min-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Linguistics and Senior Research Fellow and Dean of Degrees at Hertford College, University of Oxford)
  • Martin Scott (Professor of Media and Global Development at University of East Anglia)
3:15pm
  • Jamie Angus
  • The Baroness Helic
Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Contact us

We receive a significant number of emails each day. All requests and invitations are considered but we do not respond directly to everyone. Please be aware, the committee does not look at individual cases or specific complaints.

  • Email: fac@parliament.uk
  • Address: Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA