United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 8342
Television Licences: Concessions
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27 January 2020
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30 January 2020 · Answer
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30 January 2020
Summary
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department will take to ensure that (a) deaf and (b) elderly BBC licence fee payers will be adequately provided for by the BBC.
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27 January 2020
Written question
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department will take to ensure that (a) deaf and (b) elderly BBC licence fee payers will be adequately provided for by the BBC.
Source: Commons
30 January 2020
Answer
The BBC is editorially and operationally independent of the Government and the Government has no say on what programmes or services the BBC provides for deaf or elderly licence fee payers. However, the Royal Charter requires the BBC to serve all audiences...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-01-27/8342
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1173445
- uk · wq-1173445 · source updated 30 January 2020