{"value":{"id":671980,"memberId":3474,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs","uin":"HLWS410","dateMade":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":16,"answeringBodyName":"Foreign and Commonwealth Office","title":"BBC Monitoring Agreement","text":"<p>My right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alan Duncan), has made the following written Ministerial stat ement:</p><p>Following the written statement by the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (HCWS358), on a Royal Charter for the continuance of the BBC, the Government and the BBC have agreed a new BBC Monitoring Agreement. The Agreement took effect on 1 January 2017. BBC Monitoring will continue to be a publicly funded service under the Licence Fee arrangement.</p><p>I have placed a copy of the “BBC Monitoring Agreement” in the libraries of both Houses.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":671983,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2017-01-12T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/671980","method":"GET"}]}