HC Deb 16 December 1968 vol 775 cc247-8W
Mr. Dodds-Parker

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what he estimates to be the extra financial cost to the British Broadcasting Corporation of a normal foreign language service in Byelorussian.

Mr. Goronwy Roberts

The extra cost to the British Broadcasting Corporation of, for example, a daily half-hour broad- cast in Byelorussian would be of the order of £25,000 per annum on the assumption that suitable time could be found for it on an existing transmitter.