The BBC accepted, however, the NAO’s finding that the rationale behind decisions on which individual language services should be closed was not clear enough and that there was insufficient supporting documentation. The BBC acknowledged that some of the decisions it made, for example the decision to close Arabic radio, “did not stand the test of time”. The BBC told us that although it could not be confident that better reporting would have led to a different decision, it would have given a clearer trail to allow understanding of how that decision was made.46