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Local and Regional News

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

489 c1098-122 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 489 c1098 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Minister replies, perhaps it would be sensible at this stage to point out to hon. ...

Barbara Follett | 489 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) In the very short time that I have, I shall briefly cover three subjects. The first is the need to r...

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Bob Russell | 489 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) for shortening his speech. With all due respe...

Mark Hunter | 489 c1121 (Link to this contribution) It was me.

David Drew | 489 c1119 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very quick, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I know that the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob...

Simon Hughes | 489 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am the third complainant, though the hon. Me...

Speaker | 489 c1122 (Link to this contribution) The points of order that four hon. Members have made on their concerns about the topical debate are ...

Speaker | 489 c1103 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a five-minute limit on Back-Bench cont...

Lord Foster of Bath | 489 c1104-5 (Link to this contribution) We have already heard about the crisis in the local and regional news—news that is trusted and value...

Nigel Evans | 489 c1098 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that her children think that she is antediluvian—I am sure that they do not. We ca...

Barbara Follett | 489 c1098-100 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You are right; this debate is not so much for Front-Bench as for Back...

Mark Hunter | 489 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware that the subject of today's debate is local and regional news, but I hope that hon. ...

Andrew Gwynne | 489 c1113-5 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey), I am concerned about the decision by the ...

Brian Binley | 489 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak unashamedly in support of my local newspapers, which have had a long and impressive ...

Ann Coffey | 489 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) I want to use the debate to highlight my concern at the decision by the Guardian Media Group to anno...

Barbara Follett | 489 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of local and regional news." I am grateful...

Gerald Howarth | 489 c1121 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Further to the important point that the hon. Member for C...

David Drew | 489 c1119 (Link to this contribution) We look forward to going ahead with what my hon. Friend has just described as "a brilliant idea". I...

Speaker | 489 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Order.

Lindsay Hoyle | 489 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. When we introduced topical debates, I thought ...

John McDonnell | 489 c1119 (Link to this contribution) It was a brilliant idea.

Nigel Evans | 489 c1122 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The subject of a topical debate is, by nature,...

Mark Lazarowicz | 489 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) Inevitably, much of the focus of today's debate will be on the crisis facing many of our local newsp...

Lord Foster of Bath | 489 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman took the time this morning to read the report of today's speech by Ma...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 489 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for conveying the Liberal Democrats' message that there will be ...

Austin Mitchell | 489 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) This subject is crucial to us as politicians, and to the nation. It involves our roots, and it invol...

Lindsay Hoyle | 489 c1116-8 (Link to this contribution) I requested this debate last Thursday, and I am pleased that we are holding it today. I am pleased t...

Rob Wilson | 489 c1109-11 (Link to this contribution) I felt compelled to take part in this debate as only last week one of my local newspapers, the Readi...

Nigel Evans | 489 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) said that freezing the BBC licence fee would not do any good, ...

John Howell | 489 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) We tend to think of local media, as we have done today, in terms of their broadcast role, but they a...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 489 c1100-2 (Link to this contribution) We are debating an immensely important subject—the future of not simply a specific industry or secto...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 489 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the selection of this subject for today's topical debate, because it is clear from what ha...

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