Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding the BBC World Service's Russian language service received in each year from 2008 to date.

The BBC World Service advises that the Russian language service received the following funding from 2007/2008 to 2013/2014:

2007/08: £4.3 million
2008/09: £5.2 million
2009/10: £5.3 million
2010/11: £5.2 million
2011/12: £3.6 million
2012/13: £3.4 million
2013/14: £3.4 million

The figures from April 2014 are not available.

The BBC World Service will receive up to £85 million per year until 2020 to fund additional services to their existing programmes, in addition to licence fee funding.