Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many of the 150 journalistic posts paid for by the BBC though the local democracy reporter's service have been awarded to Trinity Mirror Group.

As the scheme is administered and funded by the BBC and not DCMS, we do not hold operational data on this scheme. However, according to the BBC Local Democracy Reporters official website, 23 contracts have been awarded to Trinity Mirror, which represents 63 journalists.

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