BBC: British Nationals Abroad
(asked on 20th February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will have discussions with the BBC on allowing licence fee payers to access the BBC app when overseas.
This question was answered on 2nd March 2026
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) meets regularly with representatives of the BBC on a range of matters.
The BBC is operationally independent, and decisions on whether and how the BBC makes its content and services, such as its respective BBC apps, available to licence fee payers when abroad are therefore for the BBC to make independent of government.