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	answer has question	aA5gtlq1
	answer has answering person	John Flasby Lawrence Whittingdale
	answer text	<p>The events in Israel since 7 October are terrorist acts committed by a terrorist organisation, proscribed in the United Kingdom since 2021 and designated as such by many other governments and international organisations.</p><p>The BBC is editorially and operationally independent and decisions around its editorial policies and guidelines are therefore a matter for the BBC not the Government.</p><p>However, calling these acts what they are, and accurately labelling the perpetrators, helps audiences to understand what has happened, is happening and its context.</p><p>That is why the Secretary of State has communicated with the BBC, and with the public, her disappointment that the BBC has refused to describe Hamas as terrorists, or the atrocities it has carried out as terrorism. The Secretary of State made that point when she met the Director General of the BBC on 9 October.</p>
	answer given date	2023-10-23
	answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	written answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has written answer	pNRTnmYh
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has answer	pNRTnmYh
aA5gtlq1	question has answer	pNRTnmYh
John Flasby Lawrence Whittingdale	answering person has answer	pNRTnmYh