Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions the Government has had with the BBC on broadcasting parliamentary proceedings on the radio.
The BBC broadcasts weekly and daily summaries of Westminster parliamentary activity on Radio 4. The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and coverage of parliamentary proceedings is a matter for the BBC. The government therefore has had no recent discussions with the BBC on broadcasting parliamentary proceedings on the radio.