BBC Monitoring inquiry

Inquiry by the Defence Committee, 12 October 2016 to 10 March 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 5th Report - Open Source Stupidity: The Threat to the BBC Monitoring Service (20 December 2016)
• 8th Special Report - Open Source Stupidity: The Threat to the BBC Monitoring Service: Responses to the Committee’s Fifth Report (10 March 2017)

Evidence sessions

• 25 October 2016: Rt Hon Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE QC, Keir Giles, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham HouseRt Hon Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC, Air Marshal (retd) Chris Nickols CB CBE DL, General (retd) Sir Richard Barrons KCB, CBE, ADC Gen
• 22 November 2016: Francesca Unsworth, Director BBC World Service Group, and Sara Beck, Director, BBC Monitoring; Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Robert Deane, Head of Knowledge Management Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (at 4.15pm).