One of the candidates snubbed in the recent race to chair Ofcom, the media regulator, is being considered to oversee a government-commissioned review of the BBC’s future funding.
Sky News has learnt that Lord Gilbert of Panteg, the former chair of the House of Lords communications and digital committee, is among a list of names under evaluation by Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary.
Whitehall sources said this weekend that the appointment of an independent figure to lead the review was some weeks away from being concluded, and that other individuals were also being considered.
Lord Gilbert, who was given a peerage by David Cameron in 2015, could not be reached for comment.
One Westminster insider suggested he would be an “uncontroversial” choice to spearhead a review of the BBC’s future funding, although the likelihood of a far-reaching overhaul of the licence fee model which has existed for decades mean any…
