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Purpose remits closed consultation
Responses to the consultation
The Trust is grateful for the responses it received to this consultation as these enable it to take into account the views of a range of stakeholders when it finalises the purpose remits later this year.
BBC Trust summary of responses
- Summary of responses, PDF (157KB)
- Summary of responses, text only (47.8KB)
Responses from individual members of the public
- Individual responses, PDF (771KB)
- Individual responses, text only (364KB)
Audience Councils' responses
- Audience Councils' responses, PDF (311KB)
- Audience Councils' responses, text only (78.3KB)
Organisations' responses
- Archbishop's Council, PDF (37.9KB)
- Archbishop's Council, text only (6.10KB)
- British Humanist Association, PDF (154.49KB)
- British Humanist Association, text only (32.9KB)
- British Music Rights, PDF (109KB)
- British Music Rights, text only (6.63KB)
- Cultural Diversity Advisory Group to the Media, PDF (58.29KB)
- Cultural Diversity Advisory Group to the Media, text only (12.1KB)
- Foras na Gaeilge, PDF (9.71KB)
- Foras na Gaeilge, text only (0.9KB)
- Friends of Radio 3, PDF (244.98KB)
- Friends of Radio 3, text only (19.6KB)
- International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), PDF (68.3KB)
- International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), text only (18.8KB)
- Mediawatch, PDF (25.67KB)
- Mediawatch, text only (6.11KB)
- PPL and VPL, PDF (62.84KB)
- PPL and VPL, text only (10.5KB)
- RadioCentre, PDF (396.05KB)
- RadioCentre, text only (89.1KB)
- Skillset, PDF (89.55KB)
- Skillset, text only (19.2KB)
- Scottish Media Group (SMG), PDF (367KB)
- Scottish Media Group (SMG), text only (2.35KB)
- The Newspaper Society, PDF (273KB)
- The Newspaper Society, text only (3.31KB)
- UK Film Council, PDF (48.67KB)
- UK Film Council, text only (8.91KB)
- VLV, PDF (76.05KB)
- VLV, text only (17.1KB)
- 911 Truth Scotland, PDF (8.76KB)
- 911 Truth Scotland, text only (1KB)
The Trust commissioned audience research alongside the public consultation in order to ensure that it gained a representative response from licence fee payers.
Audience research
- Audience research, PDF (659KB)
- Audience research, text only (43.6KB)
The Trust also commissioned some research amongst opinion formers.
Opinion former research
- Opinion former research, PDF (383KB)
- Opinion former research, text only (77.8KB)
Responses from listeners to You and Yours, 20 March 2007
- You and Yours responses, PDF (333KB)
- You and Yours responses, text only (8.4KB)
Equality impact assessment
In fulfilling its equality duties the BBC must make arrangements to assess proposed policies for any effects they might have on the promotion of equality. A retrospective equality impact assessment has been conducted on the Trust's Purpose Remit consultation.
- Equality impact assessment, PDF (43.3KB)
- Equality impact assessment, text only (3.18KB)
Background to the consultation
The BBC exists only to serve the public. Its mission is to inform, educate and entertain.
Because all the BBC's services on television, radio and online are funded by the compulsory licence fee, they must meet a public purpose. Indeed, the Royal Charter says that the BBC's services must be high quality, challenging, original, innovative and engaging, with every programme displaying at least one of those characteristics.
The BBC's Charter sets out six Public Purposes to help guide the BBC on your behalf. These are:
Sustaining citizenship and civil society
Ensuring the BBC provides high quality news, current affairs and factual programming.
Promoting education and learning
Ensuring that the BBC helps everyone in the UK to learn and build knowledge across a broad range of subjects.
Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence
Ensuring that the BBC offers the best examples of creative work across all genres.
Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities
Ensuring that the BBC reflects the many communities that exist in the UK.
Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK
Ensuring that the BBC provides internationally respected news services around the world.
Emerging communications
Ensuring that the BBC helps you to get the best out of emerging media technologies.
The full consultation document is available below.
- Full consultation PDF(60KB)
- Full consultation, text only (20KB)
The Public Purposes above cannot be changed. But for each of them the BBC Trust has proposed some key priorities to further guide the BBC and its management teams in providing you with the best quality output in return for your licence fee.
The Trust wanted to know the public's views on the priorities, including how well the BBC is performing in these areas, before finalising them.