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...