The service is funded by a Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid, administered by the Foreign Office; however, following the Government's spending review in 2011, this funding will cease, and it will be funded for the first time through the Licence fee.[145][146] In recent years, some services of the World Service have been reduced; the Thai service ended in 2006,[147] as did the Eastern European languages, with resources diverted instead into the new BBC Arabic Television.[148]