S4C

(asked on 25th November 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he or his predecessor last met the (a) Chairman and (b) Chief Executive of Sianel 4 Cymru.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 2nd December 2014

There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.

All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results

Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).

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