MPs publish BBC response to evidence session follow-up questions

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published the response from BBC Chair Samir Shah to its letter sent following his appearance in front of the committee last month.

The letter posed a number of follow-up questions about the role and actions of Dr Shah and the BBC board in the days after the editorial concerns raised by former BBC advisor Michael Prescott were first reported in the media.

It also asked about the resignation of board member Shumeet Banerji and wider questions about how the BBC is improving its processes.

The Committee has also published a note from Peter Johnston, the BBC's director of Editorial Complaints and Reviews, that was requested by the BBC board in response to Mr Prescott's memo. The BBC have said that Mr Johnston's note is a preliminary analysis and that it was not written on the basis that it would be published.