The previous S4C Authority chairman, John Walter Jones, resigned in November in the aftermath of the government's decision to hand over funding responsibility for the Welsh broadcaster to the BBC.
Internationally, the pressure the BBC is under to commercialise its news service, after being given full funding responsibility for the BBC World Service and extra obligations such as funding licence fees for over-75s, will "exacerbate pressure" for the corporation to compete for advertising and sponsorship outside the UK.
It has been six months since the federal government signed over funding responsibility for providing municipal and essential services to Western Australia's 274 remote Indigenous communities to the state government and four since the WA premier, Colin Barnett, said between 100 and 150 of those communities faced "closure" because they were "not viable".
The Commons foreign affairs committee has said it remains unconvinced that there are satisfactory safeguards to protect the World Service under the corporation's control, in a report published on the last day that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office retains funding responsibility for the service.
Conversely, in 2012, the central government downsized the number of residency training grants by 10% (from 5,000 to 4,500), passing onto the Regions further planning and funding responsibility for medical postgraduate training.
Its authors recommend that American and Colombian officials "develop a joint plan for turning over operational and funding responsibilities for U.S.-supported programs to Colombia".
It follows the licence fee settlement agreed with the UK government in October 2010, freezing the licence fee to 2017, and giving the BBC new funding responsibilities for the World Service, S4C, BBC Monitoring and local TV and broadband.
On Nov. 11, 1984, the servicemen statue and a U.S. flag were formally added to the memorial, and the combined monument was placed under the control of the National Park Service; in 2009 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund assumed responsibility for the maintenance of the site.
In addition, because Canada devolves funding and responsibility for health, welfare and education to its 10 provinces, local politicians sometimes took the flak for cuts, rather than the party in power.
America needs to ban direct-to-consumer advertising, massively raise fines for misleading marketing, and give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the funding and responsibility for most human clinical trials, rather than drug companies.
