Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Helen Southworth (Labour), on Monday, 16 October 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 164 members in total.

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MEDIA CITY AT SALFORD QUAYS

That this House supports plans to create a world-class media city at Salford Quays; recognises that Media City will be hugely important to the North West and the wider North of England, creating up to 15,500 jobs and benefiting the economy of the whole country by ??200 million per annum; further recognises that Media City will nurture a vibrant independent sector of creative companies and attract global operators in the new media industries to the UK; believes that participation by the BBC in Media City will provide significant financial and creative benefits to the Corporation and deliver robust value for money; further believes that the governors of the BBC must realise their stated objectives of a BBC connected to the nations and regions and the move of significant parts of the BBC production base out of London; and calls on the BBC to honour its commitment to the 14.4 million licence fee payers living in the North by confirming participation in Media City.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2745 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Adrian Sanders

Ian Stewart

Philip Davies

Baroness Keeley

Janet Anderson

Subjects

Media City

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk