Written questions

BBC: Local Broadcasting

Commons · Question 75580 · Tabled 8 Sep 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will have discussions with the Director General of the BBC on increasing locally (a) produced and (b) sourced (i) radio and (ii) television output.

Answer

Answered by Ian Murray, 11 Sep 2025

Under its current Charter, the BBC has an obligation to ‘reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions’. Ofcom sets specific obligations for the BBC on programme making in the nations and regions i...