§ Mr. MackinlayTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what were the total receipts, and for how many programmes or hours of television broadcasting, that the BBC World Service received from BBC World in each year since BBC World's inception. [14740]
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§ Mr. FatchettThe following sums were paid by BBC Worldwide (the BBC's commercial arm) to the World Service to fund the cost of provision of news output for BBC World:
Financial year Payment£ World Service Output (hours per day) 1991–92 6,089,979 12 1992–93 7,133,000 12 1993–94 9,130,000 12 1994–95 15,646,715 115 1995–96 210,704,074 15 1996–97 10,650,000 15 1Average. 2The annual payment was reduced from 1995–96 onwards when BBC Worldwide took on the provision of the technical resource requirements (studios etc) for BBC World news directly: previously the cost of these had been reflected in the sums paid to the World Service.