Editing BBC World Service (section)

==Funding==
The World Service was funded for decades by [[grant-in-aid]] through the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] until 1 April 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/what-we-do/public-diplomacy/world-service |title= About Us: BBC World Service |date= 22 October 2010 |work= British Foreign & Commonwealth Office |access-date= 9 January 2011 |archive-date= 31 December 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101231002104/http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/what-we-do/public-diplomacy/world-service |url-status= live }}</ref> Since then it has been funded by a mixture of the United Kingdom's [[Television licensing in the United Kingdom|television licence fee]], limited advertising,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/guidelines/editorialguidelines/pdfs/250315-World-Service-Group-External-Relationships-Funding.pdf|title=Funding|website=Downloads.bbc.co.uk|access-date=31 October 2019|archive-date=18 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118124239/http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/guidelines/editorialguidelines/pdfs/250315-World-Service-Group-External-Relationships-Funding.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> profits of [[BBC Studios]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcworldwide.com/annual-review/annual-review-2014/our-business.aspx |title=BBC Worldwide - Annual Review 2013/14 - Our Business |access-date=7 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422073204/http://www.bbcworldwide.com/annual-review/annual-review-2014/our-business.aspx |archive-date=22 April 2015 }}</ref> and [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]] funding.<ref name=holl-20221124/>

From 2014, the service was guaranteed £289&nbsp;million (allocated over a five-year period ending in 2020) from the UK government.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/23/bbc-world-service-receive-289m-from-government|title= BBC World Service to receive £289m from government|first= Tara|last= Conlan|date= 23 November 2015|newspaper= [[The Guardian]]|access-date= 1 December 2016|archive-date= 18 November 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201118140221/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/23/bbc-world-service-receive-289m-from-government|url-status= live}}</ref> In 2016, the government announced that the licence fee funding for the World Service would be £254 million/year for the five years from 2017.<ref name=holl-20221124/> From 2016 to 2022, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office contributed over £470 million to the World Service via its World 2020 Programme, about 80% of which is categorised as Overseas Development Assistance, amounting to about a quarter of the World Service budget.<ref name=hansard-20221201>{{cite web |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-12-01/debates/E550098A-BCAE-4755-8823-869F618497C1/BBCWorldService |title=Debate: BBC World Service |author=Lord Zac Goldsmith (Minister of State FCDO) |publisher=UK Parliament |work=Lord's Hansard |id=Column 1899 |date=1 December 2022 |access-date=19 January 2023}}</ref> In November 2022, the government confirmed the continuing involvement of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in funding the World Service.<ref name=holl-20221124>{{cite web |url=https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/bbc-world-service-soft-power-and-funding-challenges/ |title=BBC World Service: Soft power and funding challenges |last=Evennett |first=Heather |publisher=UK Parliament |work=House of Lords Library |date=24 November 2022 |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref><ref name=bbc-20210501>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/world-service-funding |title=BBC World Service to receive continued additional funding from Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |publisher=BBC |date=1 May 2021 |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref>