Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the BBC about the reduction in programme-making at the Mailbox in Birmingham.
No such discussions have taken place. However these very issues were discussed by the Minister for Culture in a Westminster Hall debate on 23 June this year. The Secretary of State will be announcing the process for Charter Review in due course, but the level of investment in the Midlands or elsewhere is ultimately a matter for the BBC.