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A description of costs for a Program Object Group Alias from the CRA

Lisa Evans made this Freedom of Information request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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From: Lisa Evans

2 March 2010

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

In the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) published on the HM
Treasury website:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/cra_2009...

there are lines of spending for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
with the Program Object Group Alias (POGA) of:

"P22 S020301 BBC World Service: grant in aid: Broadcasting"

But this POGA has blank cells for the spending effects for all of
the years and all of the NUTS regions listed. Given this lack of
spending effects, could you advice on how to interpret the spending
effects for the "P22 S020301 BBC World Service: grant in aid:
Broadcasting" please?

Yours faithfully,

Lisa Evans

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

3 March 2010

Dear Ms Evans

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been passed to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will be in touch with you should your request need clarification.

We received your request on 02 March 2010 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Mark Lowen
Information Management Group
Information Rights Team

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

5 March 2010

Dear Ms Evans

We would be grateful if you can clarify your request. I have been informed that detailed information about funding of the BBC World Service can be found on their website, please see link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/instit...

Unfortunately there are parts of your request that we do not understand, like when you refer to 'NUTS regions listed'. Therefore can you please clarify what information you are seeking from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office re the BBC World Service.

We will take no further action in processing this request until we have heard from you. If we do not hear from you by 30 March we will close this request down.

Yours sincerely

Mark Lowen
Information Rights Team

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From: Lisa Evans

5 March 2010

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

To be more clear, my request was for an explanation of what the
program object group alias:

"P22 S020301 BBC World Service: grant in aid: Broadcasting"

refers to in the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) published
here:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/cra_2009...

From the link to the World Service site, which shows a grant in aid
is 265.0 Million for 2009 and 255.0 Million for 2008 -- I'm curious
how this spending is shown in the CRA.

I have collected all entries from the CRA 2009 for the program
object group alias "P22 S020301 BBC World Service: grant in aid:
Broadcasting" into one sheet:

http://objectgroup.org/worldservice-cra-...

I wonder if you could explain the figures in more detail and how
they match those given on the world service site.

Yours faithfully,

Lisa Evans

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

31 March 2010


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Dear Ms Evans,

I attach the response to your Freedom Of Information request.

Yours ever

Stephen Townsend

Steve Townsend I Team Leader, Public Diplomacy Partners I Public Diplomacy
Group | Communications Directorate
(Tel: 020 7008 5993 | (FTN: 8008 5993 | :www.fco.gov.uk | * email.
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