BBC charter renewal

The BBC is established by Royal Charter. The current 10-year Charter runs until the end of 2016.

The Scottish Parliament, along with the Scottish Government, has a formal consultative role in the process of reviewing the BBC charter. In carrying out this role, the Committee is undertaking an inquiry focusing on the Scottish aspects of charter renewal.

Evidence

Written evidence

The Committee issued a call for views to its inquiry. The call for views is now closed.

Read the call for views

Submissions received

• BBC (357KB pdf)
• BBC Trust (336KB pdf)
• Beveridge, Professor Robert (383KB pdf)
• Blain, Professor Neil (191KB pdf)
• Cameron, Dr Sonja (69KB pdf)
• COSLA (182KB pdf)
• Creative Scotland (170KB pdf) 
• Eckton, George (75KB pdf)
• Hopscotch Films (130KB pdf)
• Independent Producers Scotland (69KB pdf)
• Matchlight (249KB pdf)
• MG Alba (508KB pdf)
• Ofcom Advisory Committee for Scotland (193KB pdf)
• PACT (3MB pdf)
• PACT supplementary (114.8KB pdf)
• Robertson, Professor John (281KB pdf)
• Royal Society of Edinburgh (232KB pdf)
• Scottish Co-operative Party (193KB pdf)
• Scottish Media and Communication Association (458KB pdf)
• Tern TV (911KB pdf)

Report

The Committee report on the BBC Charter Renewal was published on 8 February. 

Additional Information

The Committee wrote to the BBC seeking information ahead of its evidence session.

• Read the letter to the BBC (10 December 2015) (104KB pdf)

The BBC responded to these questions.

• Read the letter from the BBC (24 December 2015) (585KB pdf)

The Committeewrote to the BBC with additional questions ahead of the evidence session.

• Read the letter to the BBC (22 December 2015) (62.5KB pdf)

The BBC responded to these questions.

• Read the letter from the BBC (8 January 2016) (399KB pdf)