HC Deb 26 March 1973 vol 853 c249W
Mr. Money

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will encourage the British Broadcasting Corporation to use Esperanto in the course of its External Service programmes.

Mr. Kershaw

No. It is the policy of the Government, in prescribing the languages in which the British Broadcasting Corporation External Services broadcast, to give priority to English and such other languages as are spoken by major linguistic groups.