Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 26
72nd Report - BBC World Service
Published 13 Mar 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The BBC acknowledged that its tracking of financial metrics, outputs and outcomes of the World Service savings programmes need to be improved in future.51 The BBC explained that its ability to project manage the implementation of the World Service savings programmes and effectively track its inputs, outputs and outcomes was hampered by a lack of dedicated project management support. The BBC told us that it now has a new senior role in the World Service for strategic planning and delivery to support better implementation of programmes in the future.52
From: Public Accounts Committee, 72nd Report - BBC World Service (HC 1299), 13 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 June 2026 (deadline 13 May 2026).