Policy

TAC’s policy work includes regular discussions with those who make decisions affecting our industry and the broader broadcasting and production sectors. TAC engages regularly with:

• The Welsh Senedd and Welsh Government on broadcasting matters in Wales
• The UK Government – including the Wales Office, UK Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) and various parliamentary committees
• Representatives of all political parties, to discuss the Welsh TV production sector and its cultural and economic importance
• Ofcom and others to discuss broadcast regulation, public service broadcasting and related matters
• The BBC executive and S4C to discuss policy matters

You can read our recent submissions to consultations and committee inquiries below.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of TAC’s current policy, please e-mail Tim Wilson, Media and Policy Adviser, or call 07909 560374.

TAC policy papers

Most recent

• Select Committee call for evidence- Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Draft Media Bill: May 2023
• DCMS Select Committee inquiry into Minority Languages: March 2023
• TAC response to HMT consultation on tax reliefs: February 2023
• Response to Ofcom Consultation – BBC’s request to change the Operating Licence: January 2023
• TAC response to Senedd Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee inquiry on the challenges facing the creative industry workforce in Wales:  September 2022
• TAC response to Treasury Select Committee inquiry into Tax Reliefs: September 2022
• Response to Ofcom consultation on BBC Operating Licence: September 2022
• TAC response to the Senedd Committee Short inquiry into the impact of increasing costs: September 2022
• Response to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee inquiry into the future of the UK’s creative industries: September 2022
• Response to BBC iPlayer II – Public Interest Test consultation: August 2022
• TAC response to the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry on Broadcasting in Wales: August 2022
• Response to the Call for Evidence – Good Work Review of the Creative Industries April 2022

Previously

• Original productions on CBBC – Consultation on the BBC’s request to change the Operating Licence: April 2022
• Response to the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry – Wales as a global tourist destination: March 2022
• Response to Lords Communications and Digital Committee inquiry on the Future funding of the BBC: March 2022
• Response to DCMS Consultation on audience protection standards on Video-on-Demand Services: October 2021
• Response to Ofcom consultation – ‘How Ofcom regulates the BBC – a review’: September 2021
• Response to House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee’s call for evidence on the future of Channel 4: September 2021
• Response to DCMS consultation on a change of ownership of Channel 4 Television Corporation: September 2021
• Response to the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Consultation – Priorities for the Sixth Parliament: September 2021
• Key points for TV Licence Fee negotiation as submitted for consideration by DCMS: April 2021
• Response to Ofcom Review of Public Service Media – Small Screen Big Debate: March 2021
• Response to Ofcom Call for evidence – Public service broadcasters and the UK production sector: March 2021
• Response to Ofcom Review of Interaction between BBC Studios and the BBC Public Services: December 2020
• Paper to House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee on trade and the changing relationship with the EU: October 2020
• Response to Senedd Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee on the Devolution of Broadcasting: October 2020
• Response to House of Commons DCMS Select Committee on the Future of Public Service Broadcasting: June 2020
• Response to House of Commons DCMS Select Committee on re the effects of COVID-19 on the TV production sector in Wales: June 2020
• Response to DCMS on Decriminalisation of non-payment of the TV Licence Fee: March 2020

Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee, Welsh Senedd:

• TAC response to CWLC Committee on issue relating to the TV production sector arising from leaving the European Union: October 2018
• Response to S4C publication ‘Pushing the Boundaries’: April 2017
• TAC submission on S4C: March 2017
• TAC follow-up letter to submission and Audience research appendix): March 2017

DCMS

• Comments on the Independent Review of S4C and UK Government’s response, April 2018
•  TAC response to Industrial Strategy Green Paper, April 2017
• TAC response to the consultation on Channel 4, June 2017
• TAC response to the consultation on a contestable fund for public service content, February 2017
• TAC Response to DCMS BBC Charter Review Green Paper 2015

House of Commons DCMS Select Committee

• TAC paper on matters arising on leaving the EU – UK Government DCMS: October 2016
• TAC submission on BBC Charter Review 2015

House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee

• Transcript of TAC witness session on ‘Broadcasting in Wales’, January 2016 
• TAC written submission to Broadcasting in Wales Inquiry 2015
• TAC written Submission inquiry on ‘International Representation and Promotion of Wales by UK bodies’ – 2014
• Link to transcript of TAC witness session on ‘International Representation and Promotion of Wales by UK bodies’ – 2014

House of Lords Communications Committee

• TAC submission to HoL Communications Committee on SVODs and PSB April 2019
• TAC submission to House of Lords Communications Committee BBC Inquiry 2015

Ofcom

• Commissioning for the BBC Public Services: September 2018
• TAC response to Holding the BBC to account for the delivery of its mission and public purposes, July 2017
• TAC submission to TV Production Sector review 2015
• TAC response to Third Review of Public Service Broadcasting 2015

BBC Trust

• TAC Response Consultation on the assessment of BBC Studios: November 2016
• TAC response Consultation on BBC Studios and Content Supply: November 2015
• TAC response consultation on Tomorrow’s BBC 2015
• TAC submission on the draft S4C Operating Agreement 2012

TAC Manifesto 2015

• TAC Manifesto 2015

Welsh Assembly Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee

• TAC submission to CELG Committee on BBC Charter Review 2015

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