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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how he plans for the views of viewers and listeners to be represented on the BBC Charter Renewal advisory board he has appointed.

The role of the BBC Charter Review Advisory Group will be offer expert insights and experience on the range of issues involved in the Charter Review process. This will include taking account of the extensive public consultation exercise that I initiated on 16 July in publishing the BBC Charter Review Public Consultation. Members of the public, viewers and listeners are invited to respond to the consultation by 8 October 2015.