BBC Nations and Regions has overall responsibility for all the BBC's programmes and services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (local and network) and for all regional and local services in England. It is the largest regional broadcasting operation in the UK, accounting for more than £550m of BBC expenditure and employing nearly 7,000 staff across the UK.

Around 70 per cent of all the BBC's domestic TV and Radio output is made in the English Regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Across the UK this totals 18 television services, 46 radio stations and 55 Where I Live websites, all offering a front door for audiences to the whole BBC portfolio and bringing the BBC closer to the people who pay for it.

In the past few years, the BBC has invested an additional £50m a year in strengthening local programmes across the Nations and Regions.

BBC teams are based across the length and breadth of the UK in more than 50 main centres. Including local news bureaux, there are more than 100 operational bases across the country.

The BBC is committed to making broadly one-third of all its television and radio network programmes outside London and the South East.