BBC World Service (BBCWS) analysis of its spending for each language service in financial year (FY) 2006-07 is set out below. Foreign and Commonwealth Office grant-in-aid funds all BBCWS language services. BBCWS is unable to present comparable data for the previous years requested by the hon. Member because of changes in accounting procedures, specifically the way its central costs are allocated. To provide figures that are both meaningful and comparable would require a comprehensive reworking of its financial information for previous years. This would incur disproportionate cost.
£ million Africa and Middle East French For Africa 1.8 African English 3.3 Great Lakes 0.4 Hausa Service 0.9 Portuguese 0.7 Somali 0.7 Swahili 1.0 Arabic (TV budget shown separately) 8.9 Americas and Europe Brazilian 1.7 Latin American 3.8 Caribbean 0.4 Albanian 1.1 Romanian 1.3 Macedonian 0.4 Serbian 1.1 Turkish 1.0 Ukrainian 1.2 Russian 4.6 Asia Pacific Chinese 3.2 Bengali 0.9 Hindi 1.6 Nepali 0.3 Sinhala 0.3 Tamil 0.3 Urdu 3.0 Burmese 0.7 Indonesian 1.2 Vietnamese 0.7 Uzbek 0.6 Azeri 0.6 Kazakh 0.1 Kyrgyz 0.2 Persian/Pashto 5.8 Total 53.7 Arabic TV (rising to £19 million in FY 2007-08) 9.0 English production, presentation and commissioning 48.7 Transmission 37.8 New Media 8.5 Finance, Property and provisions (including redundancy) 26.1 Marketing 6.2 Technology support 13.3 HR and Training 4.4 Direction, Strategy and other 4.3 Total expenditure 212.0
£ million Operating Capital Total Grant in aid 2005-06 208.1 31 239.1 Additional funding from SR2004 6.5 0 6.5 Vires from capital (ex £31 million total capital grant) 3.5 -3.5 0.0 BBC Monitoring Transfer to Cabinet Office -6.1 0 -6.1 212.0 27.5 239.5