Audience Council for Nothern Ireland

The BBC Trust has published its final conclusions on Delivering Quality First, which is the BBC’s plan for how it can best deliver the highest quality programmes and content to audiences until the end of the BBC's Charter in 2017.

The Trust consulted publicly on the Executive's Delivering Quality First proposals in 2011, and the Audience Council responded to this consultation on behalf of audiences here in Northern Ireland.

Delivery Quality First follows a licence fee settlement, agreed with the Government in October 2010, which sees the licence fee frozen at its current level of £145.50 until 2017, and the BBC assuming new funding responsibilities. To fulfil this settlement, Mark Thompson, Director-General, set a savings target for the BBC of 20%.

Alongside the Trust’s conclusions on Delivering Quality First, the Executive has published four statements, commissioned by the Trust, which explain the BBC’s plan for each nation - Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales – in some detail.

You can read the Trust’s final conclusions on Delivering Quality First here>> and the statement for Delivering Quality First in Northern Ireland here >>

The Audience Council's submission to the Trust's public consultation (2011) is available here >>