Debate on select committee report on Friday, 9 December 2005, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Fowler. The answering member was Lord Davies of Oldham.

BBC Royal Charter

Lords debate on motion to take note of the report of the Select Committee on the Review of the BBC's Royal Charter (HL 50 2005-06). Agreed to on question.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 676 c870-928
Session: 2005-06
Department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Select Committee on the BBC's Charter Review
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: The review of the BBC's royal charter. BBC Charter Review Select Committee (HL) first report in 2 volumes with evidence and appendices.
Tuesday, 1 November 2005
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Proceeding contributions: Lord Fowler | 676 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a good debate. I have listened to virtually every word of it. Typically, I m...; Lord Davies of Oldham | 676 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall have to write to the noble Lord with the details. He has alighted on a point that ...; Lord Davies of Oldham | 676 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord always criticises the progress on the freedom of information legislation, b...; Lord McNally | 676 c925 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does not the Minister feel thoroughly ashamed that a Government who came to power committe...; Lord Davies of Oldham | 676 c922-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a most interesting and valuable debate. We owe a debt to the noble Lord, Lor...; Viscount Astor | 676 c921 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suspect that that is a dilemma faced by many economists teaching their subject when tren...; Lord Peston | 676 c921 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can demonstrate without a shadow of doubt that, according to economics, competition in b...; Viscount Astor | 676 c917-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the report of the Select Committee, chaired by my noble friend Lord Fowler, is an impressi...; Lord Clement-Jones | 676 c913-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my congratulations and thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler. I can do that with eve...; Lord Lipsey | 676 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join those noble Lords who have complimented the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, and his team o...; Lord Dubs | 676 c907-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Select Committee report. I join in the congratulations to its members, and a...; Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 676 c905-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for chairing the Select Committee in a mo...; Baroness Buscombe | 676 c897-900 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much welcome the report from the Select Committee chaired by my noble friend Lord F...; Lord Maxton | 676 c895-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for his chairmanship of the committee. It ...; Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 676 c903-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too wish to add my thanks to our chairman, the noble Lord, Lord Fowler. Your Lordships’ ...; Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury | 676 c900-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, for the expert way in which he guided the ...; Lord King of Bridgwater | 676 c886-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Peston, in paying tribute to the committee. I have not served ...; Bishop of Manchester | 676 c892-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I readily add my voice to the views already expressed about the excellent chairmanship of ...; Lord Holme of Cheltenham | 676 c889-92 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the tributes that have been paid to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler. It is true that we...; Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 676 c881-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord McNally, for his comments about my nuisance value and the nob...; Lord McNally | 676 c878-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the committee’s report. I associate myself with the tribute that the noble Lord,...; Lord Judd | 676 c875-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that the whole House is deeply grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, and his ...; Lord Fowler | 676 c871-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the 1992 election campaign after a particularly fierce altercation with the BBC, I also...; Lord Fowler | 676 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) rose to move, That this House takes note of the First Report of the Select Committee on the Review o...; Lord Gordon of Strathblane | 676 c910-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join your Lordships in welcoming the report and paying tribute to the chairmanship of th...; Lord Peston | 676 c884-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, start by thanking our chairman, the noble Lord, Lord Fowler. Those of us who have ...; Lord King of Bridgwater | 676 c926 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this seems to have got disconnected from the NAO. I said that it was the perfect job for t...
Subjects: Complaints Accountability BBC Digital broadcasting Fees and charges Management Parliamentary scrutiny Location Political impartiality Public service broadcasting Ofcom National Audit Office Standards Regulation Reviews Royal charters BBC World Service Television licences
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