Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Austin Mitchell (Labour), on Wednesday, 23 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 32 members in total.

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JOB LOSSES AT THE BBC

That this House condemns the announcement of more than 3,780 job losses at the BBC, the privatisation of key services and outsourcing of jobs to the private sector without any prior consultation with staff representatives; believes that cuts to programme-making staff in core public service areas such as Radio 4 and Five Live, Parliamentary coverage, News 24, the Politics Show, newsgathering and world affairs as well as 735 job cuts in the nations and regions will reduce quality and cause standards to fall; is concerned that such falls in quality will result in viewers and listeners being less well served and the value for money of the licence fee being damaged; praises the campaign by the BBC's staff against the job losses; and calls on the Director General to halt job losses and to enter into meaningful consultation with staff representatives to explore other ways to achieve savings and real value for money.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

994 

Session

2004-05

Subjects

BBC Employment Privatisation Redundancy

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk