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BBC Monitoring
17 November 2016
The Defence Committee hold a second evidence session to examining the likely consequences for the BBC's proposals for restructuring BBC Monitoring, the arm of the BBC which monitors media sources across the world.
Witnesses
Tuesday 22 November 2016, The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
At 3.00pm
- Screening of BBC Newsnight report on BBC Monitoring from 26 June 2014
At 3.15pm
- Francesca Unsworth, Director, BBC World Service Group
- Sara Beck, Director, BBC Monitoring
At 4.15pm
- Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Background
The Committee will examine the proposed changes to the organisation and the impact that they will have on the value of the work of BBC Monitoring to policy making and wider understanding in the UK Government.