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1. Within its overarching concern to secure strong creative output and value for money for audiences, the 鲍鱼tv Trust wants the 鲍鱼tv to draw on the capacity and skills of the whole UK in sourcing its network television production. We are convinced that the 鲍鱼tv can do better here and, in discussion with the 鲍鱼tv management, now set them a number of challenges.

2. As a first step, the Trust has decided to change the measure by which it sets targets for the 鲍鱼tv in this area. Previous 鲍鱼tv targets have been set by reference to its own definition of what counts as network production. For the future, the Trust has decided to apply the definition applied by Ofcom to the rest of the UK broadcasting industry. This is not a matter of semantics. The Ofcom definition is more demanding than the 鲍鱼tv's definition, and applying it in future represents a significant stretch.

3. For the UK as a whole, and reflecting the planned move to Salford, the Trust now expects the 鲍鱼tv to ensure that 50 per cent of network production will be made outside London under the Ofcom definition by 2016.

4. Within this, the Trust has increased the 鲍鱼tv's target to source network production from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. During the Charter renewal process, the 鲍鱼tv committed itself to sourcing at least 17 per cent of its network production from the three nations under its own definition. While retaining the 17 per cent figure, the Trust has now decided to apply it to the more stretching Ofcom definition, and to require the 鲍鱼tv to meet or exceed the target no later than the end of the current Charter in 2016. It is also setting the 鲍鱼tv the intermediate target of achieving 12 per cent of delivery under the Ofcom definition by 2012 at the latest.

5. The Director-General has made a commitment that the 鲍鱼tv should source a proportion of network programmes from Scotland, equivalent to Scotland's share of the UK population. The Trust challenges the 鲍鱼tv to achieve a comparable approach in relation to Wales and Northern Ireland as well as Scotland. There will not be formal targets for individual nations. Nonetheless, on the basis of regular reports from the 鲍鱼tv, the Trust will monitor delivery from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland carefully to ensure that the 鲍鱼tv is helping to build strong and sustainable network production in all three nations and the English regions within the timescales identified.

6. The Trust welcomes 鲍鱼tv management's shared commitment to making a reality of these aspirations. They offer the prospect of strong and sustainable network production from across the UK, responding to the concerns of audiences and helping to build the UK's creative economy. This is not something that the 鲍鱼tv can achieve alone, but with these new aspirations it commits to playing its full part in the process.