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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the amount of public money required to run the S4C television channel; and what steps they will take to ensure that that channel receives financial support.

Following the independent review of S4C conducted by Euryn Ogwen Williams, the government accepted the recommendation for S4C to be fully licence fee funded from April 2022.

The government will assess the amount of public money required to run S4C’s television channel and other services during the discussions on the licence fee settlement due to take effect from April 2022.

S4C’s licence fee funding is guaranteed to remain at £74.5 million until 2021/22.