BBC Monitoring terms of reference

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Following proposed cuts to BBC monitoring, the Defence Committee decided to take evidence on this important subject.

Terms of reference

What does the Government require from the BBC Monitoring service?
Has the switch in funding from Government grants to the licence fee resulted in the prioritisation of current affairs at the expense of political or military material?
What impact will the reduction in BBC Monitoring capacity, staff numbers and funding on:
— Ministry of Defence
— Foreign and Commonwealth Office
— Department for International Development
— Cabinet Office
— Security and Intelligence agencies
— Open Source Enterprise
To what extent have Government departments and their agencies adopted in-house open source collection and analysis? Have these taken over services previously provided by BBC Monitoring or are they intended to compliment them?
How have different departments been able to feed in to the negotiations on the new Scheme, led by the Cabinet Office?

The deadline for written submissions was 15 November 2016.