Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Piara S Khabra (Labour), on Wednesday, 22 May 2002, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 102 members in total.

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DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS BILL

That this House notes that factual coverage of overseas development on BBC, Channel 4, and ITV fell 50 per cent. between 1989 and 1999; further notes that according to a recent survey by DfID 85 per cent. of people cite their primary source of information on developing countries as television; therefore calls on the Government to ensure that under relaxed regulation of the Draft Communications Bill there is still a formal benchmark on coverage of overseas development against which broadcasters should perform to help avoid the current decline in coverage; and therefore hopes the Government will reconsider making it a requirement for broadcasters to include international programmes, as it has with religious, arts, sport and leisure programmes, under Tier 3 of the Draft Communications Bill on non-news factual programming to bring it in line with the previous White Paper's commitment.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1374 

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Broadcasting Competition Developing countries Communication Television

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk