Local Broadcasting
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what payments have been made through the Local Democracy Reporting Service to each participating publisher in each year since the scheme's inception.
Answered by Ian Murray
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 Democracy Reporting Service is therefore a matter for the BBC itself.
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