BBC Trust Chairman confirms World Service funding for 2014

Date: 11.06.2013     Last updated: 23.09.2014 at 09.48
Category: BBC World Service; Licence fee

Following a Written Ministerial Statement from the Foreign Secretary on Foreign and Commonwealth Office spending 2013-14, BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten said:

“When it comes under licence fee funding from April next year, the BBC Trust will be able to give the World Service a far greater degree of financial security, from which it can continue to provide its much-needed and valued services for audiences around the world. From 1 April 2014 the total budget for the World Service from the licence fee will be £245m, an increase of over £5m a year on the new level of grant now being provided from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. ”