🔗 Share this article Previous BBC Consultants Undergo Members of Parliament's Questioning In the Wake of Assertions of Partiality in Leaked Memo We open with queries from Conservative lawmaker the committee chair, who chairs the group. She opens by offering context to the disclosed document written by Michael Prescott and printed in a daily publication. "I do not desire the BBC leaning this way or that way, I just want it balanced, impartial and equitable," he declares. Upon being questioned whether he considers the BBC is institutionally biased, the adviser answers: "No I don't. To be clear, numerous aspects the BBC does is exceptional - encompassing factual and non-factual programming." But he adds: "There exists real work that needs to be done at the BBC." Another former external BBC specialist questioned by the panel, Caroline Daniel, says she takes the BBC extremely earnestly and that it maintains a "ongoing system and lively discussion" across dynamic and complex issues. "Whether the BBC was ready to conduct a genuine conversation and exchange and implement changes?" she questions. "As I see it, affirmative, they were."