HC Deb 24 January 2001 vol 361 cc590-1W
Mr. Paterson

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the total funds received by the BBC in 2000 from the European Union. [145014]

Janet Anderson

[holding answer 15 January 2001]In common with other broadcasters, regulators and broadcasting research bodies across Europe, the BBC takes part in a range of technical research projects which attract funding from the European Commission. According to the latest information provided by the BBC, during the financial year 2000–01 the corporation has received a total of £444,000 in connection with such projects, as detailed in the following table.

£
Project/Purpose of project EC funding to BBC
ATLANTIC
Research and Development (R&D)—Advanced TV at low bit rates 95,000
ASSAVID
R&D—automatic segmentation and semantic annotation of sports videos 30,000
DRIVE
R&D—Dynamic Radio for IP-services in vehicles 50,000
G-FORS
R&D—developing a stanardised file format 60,000
Metavision
R&D—metavision 32,000
myTV
R&D—personalised TV services 10,000
SAMBITS
R&D—advance multime ha broadcast and IT services 20,000

£
Project/Purpose of project EC funding to BBC
STORiT
R&D—storage interoperability technologies 27,000
PRESTO
R&D—preservation of TV and radio material in archives 60,000
Schoolnet
Development of a website for teachers across Europe 60,000
Total 444,000