Select Committee · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
The future of the BBC World Service
Status: Closed
Opened: 5 Nov 2024
Closed: 9 Sep 2025
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to hold a short inquiry into the BBC World Service. The World Service broadcasts in 42 languages, including English, reaching an estimated 320 million people globally each week. Most of the World Service’s global audience access the World Service in its local language. BBC World Service is funded …
Oral evidence sessions
| Date | Witnesses | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Nov 2024 | Fiona Crack · BBC World Service, Jon Zilkha · BBC World Service, Professor Richard Sambrook, Richard Sharp · BBC | View ↗ |
Correspondence
| Date | Direction | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jul 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth… |
| 5 Jun 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committe… |
| 4 Mar 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Baroness Chapman of Darlington, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of St… |
| 4 Mar 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Tim Davie, Director General, and Jonathan Munro, Global Director an… |
| 31 Jan 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committe… |
| 14 Jan 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Jonathan Munro, Global Director and Deputy CEO, BBC News, regarding… |
| 14 Jan 2025 | To cttee | Letter from Baroness Chapman of Darlington, Minister for Latin America and the … |