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Fiona Mactaggart

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Counter-terrorism Review
Wednesday 26th January 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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Yes, absolutely. To reiterate the answer I just gave to the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Mr Roy), we will look very sympathetically on that situation.

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At the moment, the audience for the BBC World Service is more than 240 million people around the world. After these cuts, will the BBC still be the pre-eminent world broadcaster, putting forward our democratic values in a way that other international broadcasters fail to do?

Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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Yes. Not only will the BBC be that, but it will have great potential for the future in working with other BBC services and in developing some of the new services that I have outlined today.

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