Cyllid S4C a Radio Cymru

4 March 2022

Dear

ATISN 16050: S4C Funding

Thank you for your request to the Welsh Government for information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) received on 7 February. You requested information relating to:

How much Welsh Government and TV Licence Fee funding has been awarded to S4C and Radio Cymru since 2000.

Our response

We have reviewed our financial records and can confirm a total of £170,117.08 has been paid to S4C by the Welsh Government since 2000. Our financial records indicate that no payments have been made to Radio Cymru from the Welsh Government during that period.

In terms of TV Licence Fee subsidies to both S4C and Radio Cymru, this information is not held by the Welsh Government as the TV Licence Fee is a non-devolved matter, and therefore a matter for the UK Government. Further information on TV Licence Fee subsidies is available from the BBC and S4C’s published annual accounts and we would advise that you contact both directly for this information or review the annual accounts available through the following links:

Annual Report and Accounts - S4C

Annual Report and Accounts - BBC

Next steps

The request you sent me contains personal information about you - for example, your name and e-mail address. The Welsh Government will be the data processor for this information and, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, it will be processed in order to fulfil our public task and meet our legal obligations under the Act to provide you with a response.

We will only use this personal information to deal with your request and any matters which arise as a result of it. We will keep your personal information and all other information relating to your request for three years from the date on which your request is finally closed. 

Your personal information will then be disposed of securely.

Under data protection legislation, you have the right:

• to be informed of the personal data we hold about you and to access it
• to require us to rectify inaccuracies in that data
• to (in certain circumstances) object to or restrict processing
• for (in certain circumstances) your data to be ‘erased’
• to (in certain circumstances) data portability
• to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is our independent regulator for data protection

For further information about the information which the Welsh Government holds and its use, or if you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, please see contact details below:

Data Protection Officer
Welsh Government
Cathays Park    
CARDIFF
CF10 3NQ
Email: DataProtectionOfficer@gov.wales

If you are dissatisfied with the Welsh Government’s handling of your request, you can ask for an internal review within 40 working days of the date of this response.  Requests for an internal review should be addressed to the Welsh Government’s Freedom of Information Officer at:

Information Rights Unit
Welsh Government
Cathays Park
CARDIFF
CF10 3NQ 
Email: Freedom.ofinformation@gov.wales

Please remember to quote the ATISN reference number above.   

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: 

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
CHESHIRE
SK9 5AF

However, please note that the Commissioner will not normally investigate a complaint until it has been through our own internal review process.

Yours sincerely