Bbc World

Mr. Mackinlay
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what were the total receipts, and for how many programmes or hours of television broadcasting, that the BBC World Service received from BBC World in each year since BBC World's inception. [14740]

Mr. Fatchett
The following sums were paid by BBC Worldwide (the BBC's commercial arm) to the World Service to fund the cost of provision of news output for BBC World: ----------------
|Financial year|
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|1991–92       |
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|1992–93       |
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|1993–94       |
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|1994–95       |
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|1995–96       |
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|1996–97       |
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