Question follow-through · 12397
Local Broadcasting
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the average annual cost to the BBC is of each Local Democracy Reporting Service funded reporter post.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the average annual cost to the BBC is of each Local Democracy Reporting Service funded reporter post.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2026
Answer published
The BBC has an important role to play in supporting the plurality of local news services in the UK. The BBC is operationally independent of the government and the process for determining and allocating its budgets and external payments of the Local Democr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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