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BBC Charter Renewal: public purposes and licence fee inquiry

Inquiry by the Communications and Digital Committee, 26 June 2015 to 9 December 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 7 July 2015: Claire Enders, Chief Executive, Enders Analysis; and Steve Hewlett, Broadcaster; Professor Des Freedman, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London; and Dr Damian Tambini, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics
  • 14 July 2015: Simone Pennant, Founder and Director, TV Collective; Laura Mansfield, Chair, Pact, and Emily Davidson, Head of Policy, Pact; Professor Diane Coyle, former vice-chair of the BBC Trust; and Lord Birt, former Director-General of the BBC
  • 21 July 2015: Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair, Arts Council England, and Cerys Matthews, MBE, Broadcaster and Musician; Dr Roberto Suárez Candel, Director of the Media Intelligence Service, European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland
  • 15 September 2015: Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster; David Elstein, Chairman of openDemocracy and the Broadcasting Policy Group; and Luke Johnson, former Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts and Channel 4
  • 13 October 2015: Rona Fairhead CBE, Chair, BBC Trust, Mark Florman, BBC Trust member for England, and Alex Towers, Director, BBC Trust; Dinah Caine CBE, Chair Designate, Creative Skillset, and Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists
  • 27 October 2015: Tony Collingwood, creator, writer and director of children’s animated series, and Professor Jeanette Steemers, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster; Sophie Chalk, Head of Campaigns, International Broadcasting Trust, and Adrian Greer, Chief Operating Officer, British Council
  • 29 October 2015: Hywel Wiliam, Member of the Media Policy Group, Institute of Welsh Affairs
  • 29 October 2015: Richard Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Ireland Screen, and Caroline Norbury, Chief Executive Officer, Creative England
  • 29 October 2015: Ken MacQuarrie, Director, BBC Scotland; and Rhys Evans, Head of Digital and Strategy, BBC Wales
  • 29 October 2015: Jenny Baxter, Chief Operating Officer, BBC England; and Peter Johnston, Director, BBC Northern Ireland
  • 3 November 2015: Will Harding, Chief Strategy Officer, Global Radio, and David Wheeldon, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Sky; Dorothy Byrne, Head of News and Current Affairs, Channel 4, and Kevin Sutcliffe, Head of News Programming EU, VICE News
  • 10 November 2015: Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE, Director-General, BBC; and James Purnell, Director of Strategy and Digital, BBC; Dan Brooke, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Channel 4; Huw Jones, Chairman, S4C Authority; and Magnus Brooke, Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, ITV
  • 17 November 2015: Steve Holebrook, Director of Terrestrial Broadcast, Arqiva, and Anirban Roy, Director of Public Policy, Arqiva; Rt Hon John Whittingdale OBE MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport