 The service is based in the Peel Wing of Broadcasting House in London.In 2011, as the British government cut funding to the BBC, forcing the BBC World Service to close down its services in five languages, the government simultaneously increased funding to the BBC Arabic service, in the words of Foreign Secretary William Hague, to "assist the BBC Arabic Service to continue their valuable work in the region".BBC Arabic can also be seen via bbc.co.uk/Arabic/.