Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the BBC Executive Complaints Unit’s interpretation of its impartiality guidelines in supporting a complaint against Ms Naga Munchetty for her comments about remarks made by the President of the United States.

The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from government. It is therefore not for the government to undertake this kind of assessment.

The BBC’s website sets out how it will handle complaints: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/handle-complaint/. Where the BBC’s complaints process has been exhausted, there may be recourse to take the complaint to Ofcom as the BBC’s independent regulator