Question follow-through · 93544
BBC: Legal Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has contingency funds to meet the legal liabilities of the BBC.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has contingency funds to meet the legal liabilities of the BBC.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
This is a matter for the BBC, whose lawyers are now dealing with the issue. The BBC is independent of the UK government and so it is a matter for them and the US President.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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