Proceeding contribution from Baroness Coussins (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 26 January 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on BBC World Service.
BBC World Service
Can the Minister explain how the disappearance of various foreign language services from the World Service, and of radio broadcasts in Russian, Mandarin and Turkish, can be reconciled with the Foreign Secretary’s recent remarks about the importance of languages in a United Kingdom which needs to engage more energetically with the wider world outside familiar European Union boundaries? Why is there this inconsistency in foreign policy? In view of the strategic importance of these services, at home as well as abroad, should their funding not be ring-fenced and protected?
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- 2010-12
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- BBC Broadcasting Finance Languages Location Pension funds BBC World Service
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