§ Mr. Arnoldasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the financing of the BBC external services.
§ Mr. WhitneyI should draw my hon. Friend's attention to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham (Mr. Luce) to his question on 15 July. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's grant-in-aid to the BBC external services for the current year, as announced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 27 July, is £76,582,000.—[Vol. 45, c.457.]