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Update to BBC Agreement

皇冠体育app National Audit Office (NAO) will have right to choose which areas of the BBC it investigates, under new value-for-money arrangements published today.

From:
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP
Published
15 September 2011
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

皇冠体育app National Audit Office (NAO) will now have the right to choose which areas of the BBC it investigates, under new value-for-money arrangements published today. Amendments to the BBC Agreement have been laid in Parliament by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, fulfilling the commitment given in the Coalition Agreement to ensure greater transparency in the BBC鈥檚 operations.

皇冠体育app changes to the BBC Agreement also formalise the new responsibilities given to the BBC under the terms of the television licence fee settlement of October 2010 including:

  • the BBC鈥檚 new funding responsibility for S4C, the World Service and BBC Monitoring
  • the BBC鈥檚 funding responsibilities and commitments to local TV and broadband.

皇冠体育app new value-for-money arrangements also give the NAO the right to have full access to BBC information when carrying out its studies.

Mr Hunt said:

鈥淚t is right that licence fee payers have confidence that the BBC is spending money wisely, so I am pleased that the NAO now have the right to full access to BBC information. 皇冠体育appir new power to decide which areas of activity to scrutinise will increase transparency while maintaining the BBC鈥檚 independence.鈥�

皇冠体育app licence fee settlement set out new arrangements to secure the future funding of Welsh language channel S4C through partnership with the BBC. 皇冠体育app new funding model is set out today; discussions between S4C, the BBC and DCMS on the governance arrangements are ongoing.聽

皇冠体育app amended Agreement also formalises the commitments for the BBC to support new local television services and the roll out of superfast broadband.

皇冠体育app BBC Agreement was last amended in February this year to implement the transfer of the funding of World Service from the Government to BBC. This change was also made following the addition of responsibilities as part of the licence fee settlement.

Notes to editors

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  2. Any changes to the BBC Agreement must be agreed between the Secretary of State and the BBC Trust, as the governing body of the Corporation.
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Published 15 September 2011