Canadian Heritage committee  “Increasingly” is the answer. We have found that school programming on television doesn't work the way it used to. It used to be very effective in promoting education and learning. Now, because of the time of day at which programming is broadcast and because different schools o

Canadian Heritage committee  At the moment, no, generally speaking, we don't, but the proposal is occasionally put forward to us. I think we'd certainly consider that, because we are open to anybody who wants to show our content to a wider audience as long as they do it in a way that we regard as proper. If

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, and my apologies again for the failure of our equipment. I'm rather glad the phone line wasn't operating or you might have heard some rather unparliamentary language from me.

Canadian Heritage committee  This is something that Daniel has been looking at, so if I may, I'll pass the question to him.

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me start. I'm sorry, I was focusing on your charter and agreement question. So let me answer your second question first, and then you can remind me of your first one. The charter essentially establishes the BBC and sets out how it operates and its powers. The agreement then

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I can give you some examples of what we're expected to do under it. I think that might be the best way to do it. One of the things they expect us to do is commission a good deal of our content from outside London. The trustees are very concerned to ensure that we cover reg

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. The quota that's been around for some time is that one-third of our production should come from outside London. The director general, talking about the quota only last week, said that he expected in a few years' time it would be more like 50%.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. On television, we support Welsh television through versions of BBC Two in Wales and through a Welsh radio station. In Scotland, we have a Gallic radio station and website, to which we're now adding a Gallic television channel. We also have radio and online services in those

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, the aim is to make all archive content that has come out in the last seven days available free to air via broadband. In some cases, we simply don't have the rights to do that. For example, if we've shown a Hollywood movie, we're not going to make that available on demand be

Canadian Heritage committee  We don't have any access to a fund similar to the Canadian Television Fund. There is no equivalent in the U.K. But what we do, particularly with some of our more expensive productions, is we look for co-producers, for other broadcasters, who, in return for the rights to show the

Canadian Heritage committee  The licence fee goes back so far--right back to the 1920s--that I am not quite sure what the reaction was when it was first introduced. What I would say is the evasion rate, the 5% figure, is the people who don't pay. I guess it would be honest in answering your question to say

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, there is. You'll find them on the BBC's website, if you're interested in that. If you go to the section of the website that's devoted to the trust, you will find all the documents that explain how purpose remits and purpose plans are implemented available on the website.

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me explain. There are actually two things here. At a high level there are purpose remits, which are written by the trust. We get to see them, but they are very much the trust's proposals to us. The purpose plans, if you like, are the executive's response to the purpose remit

Canadian Heritage committee  The licence fee is a fee imposed per household regardless of what channels you watch. Under British law you have to pay a licence fee even if you never watch a BBC service. That's not very likely; almost everyone does use the BBC to some extent. But even if you don't, the licence

Canadian Heritage committee  The majority of people pay only the licence fee, £135.50. But those who choose to pay a subscription will pay up to about £45 a month on top of that. The subscription packages start at around £10 or £12 a month and go from there to £45 a month. If you are a sports fan and you wan