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Debates on delegated legislation on Wednesday, 20 May 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Hunt. The answering member was Andy Burnham.

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Communications (Television Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009. (SI 2009/505). Debate on a motion to revoke. Negatived on division (156 votes to 334).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
492 c1575-604 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 492 c1587 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Speaker imposed a 12-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches. So that I can—I hope—accommodat...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1581 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that colleagues in all parties are concerned about aspects of what the BBC does, and it i...
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Andy Burnham | 492 c1582 (Link to this contribution) I will make some progress now, but I shall give way to both hon. Members before I finish speaking. ...
Barry Sheerman | 492 c1582 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman has made an extensive speech in the ve...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1582 (Link to this contribution) Let me make it absolutely clear that the Secretary of State is distorting what the Leader of Opposit...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1582 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, and I hope that he has a good answer to that point.
Speaker | 492 c1583 (Link to this contribution) I have already made a plea to hon. Members to be brief with their interventions. The intervention wa...
Mark Pritchard | 492 c1583 (Link to this contribution) I would like to declare an interest: I am a supporter of some parts of the BBC. Talking about old wa...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1583 (Link to this contribution) I get on well with the hon. Member for South-West Surrey, but I take great exception to his saying t...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1583 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point and I will deal with precisely that issue now. I said that the...
Paul Farrelly | 492 c1583 (Link to this contribution) It is important that the BBC does not get too big for its boots—indeed, the Select Committee on Cult...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1584 (Link to this contribution) I must make progress. More specifically, the cuts that the hon. Member for South-West Surrey is tod...
Graham Stuart | 492 c1584 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Andy Burnham | 492 c1584-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Having visited a couple of times, I know that there is a de...
David Cairns | 492 c1584 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is a great champion of broadcasting in the nations and regions. He has already ...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I just wanted to ask the Secretary of State whether he thinks licence fee payers' money is better sp...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I hope the hon. Gentleman has a good answer.
Roger Gale | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I might be able to help the Secretary of State. The reason why the BBC is having such problems is th...
Barry Sheerman | 492 c1581 (Link to this contribution) I believe Labour Members share my view that the BBC is a fantastic organisation, and we will not vot...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1581 (Link to this contribution) I have visited Pacific Quay in Glasgow a few times. It is a major investment by the BBC, at the hear...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1581 (Link to this contribution) I will make progress before giving way. My right hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwoo...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1580-1 (Link to this contribution) I take it that support for racing is off the agenda if the hon. Gentleman has his way. Hon. Members ...
Pete Wishart | 492 c1581 (Link to this contribution) What does the Secretary of State say to Scottish licence fee payers, who face the increases although...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1578 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about so-called disruption to the BBC's business plan. Businesses up and do...
Speaker | 492 c1578 (Link to this contribution) Order. The time for this debate is very limited and several Back Benchers wish to make contributions...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1579 (Link to this contribution) I support creative risk taking, but socially responsible broadcasters should behave in a socially re...
Evan Harris | 492 c1579 (Link to this contribution) With regard to the Jonathan Ross-Russell Brand incident—I make no defence of that escapade—will the ...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1579 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely do. My hon. Friend is making exactly the same point as I am about the importance of plu...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 492 c1578-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that not only the broadcast media are suffering from inappropriate incursi...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I did hear the chairman's replies, and I thought he made some very sensible and solid points. I also...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Andy Burnham | 492 c1579-80 (Link to this contribution) I begin with two points of solid agreement, I think, between the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (...
William Cash | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) Did the Secretary of State hear a fascinating item on the "Today" programme this morning in which Sa...
Paul Farrelly | 492 c1578 (Link to this contribution) The point about the current impact on production has been well made by my hon. Friends. The BBC is a...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1578 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point. In fact, 50 people at the BBC are paid more than the ...
Lord Redwood | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that when a lot of public money is taken in small sums from people without...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) It is excellent that the BBC is investing in our regions. However, we also have to consider whether ...
Barry Sheerman | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) In Yorkshire, we have just discovered that ITV is closing down "Heartbeat", "A Touch of Frost" and "...
Anne Begg | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) I should like to pick up the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde (David Cairns). ...
David Cairns | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has been generous in giving way. I would understand the log...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does not appreciate the logic of my argument. If there is a huge disparity betwee...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1576 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that the only way to deal with the commercial predicament faced by ...
David Cairns | 492 c1576 (Link to this contribution) Before the previous intervention, the hon. Gentleman made the entirely accurate point that the adver...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1576 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend on that point. I visited some independent production studios ...
Philip Davies | 492 c1575 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that his last point gets to the heart of the matter? Since the licence fee...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1575 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the Communications (Television Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I., 20...
William Cash | 492 c1576 (Link to this contribution) On the question of independent producers, is my hon. Friend concerned about the uncompetitive nature...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1575-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend does a very good job of developing my argument for me. I shall continue if I may, but...
John Whittingdale | 492 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that in the run-up to the previous BBC settlement, the BBC was, in ...
John Whittingdale | 492 c1592 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) on initiating this ...
John Grogan | 492 c1591-2 (Link to this contribution) This is a question of balance, and of whether we should have the review once every six or seven year...
Philip Davies | 492 c1592-3 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, as opposed to the BBC press release masquerading as the Liberal Demo...
John Whittingdale | 492 c1593 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Conservatives are entirely familiar with the claim that ther...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1593 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is of course absolutely right to describe the pressure on established media busin...
John Whittingdale | 492 c1593-4 (Link to this contribution) We simply cannot ignore the environment in which the BBC is operating. That is not to say that the B...
Austin Mitchell | 492 c1594 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition's pathetic and opportunistic proposal tells us more about the intellectual decline of...
Philip Davies | 492 c1594 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Austin Mitchell | 492 c1594-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to embark on top-slicing, and neither does the National Union of Journalists or anyone...
Philip Davies | 492 c1594 (Link to this contribution) And I am very grateful too, but does the hon. Gentleman agree that top-slicing was recommended by th...
William Cash | 492 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) In an intervention on my party's Front-Bench spokesman, I raised the question of the BBC's accounts,...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 492 c1595 (Link to this contribution) The argument is that the money should go back to the licence fee payer—the taxpayer.
Austin Mitchell | 492 c1595-6 (Link to this contribution) Well, that would be a very generous donation to everybody. That would make no difference to most peo...
Rob Wilson | 492 c1597-8 (Link to this contribution) I am a supporter of the BBC and value its history. I had intended to spend some time talking about t...
Speaker | 492 c1599 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have a difficulty, because the Secretary of State would like to make a short reply and the ...
Speaker | 492 c1599 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Davies can have one minute, and I will allow the balance to the Secretary of State.
Rob Wilson | 492 c1598-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much. The BBC continues to demonstrate scant regard for balance and decency. At the ...
Philip Davies | 492 c1599 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that one minute is about as much as people will be able to stomach from me anyway; your ju...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to make a few brief comments in concl...
Speaker | 492 c1600 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
Lord Redwood | 492 c1585 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that the BBC makes provision for the nations and regions, but when will ...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) once already, and I want to make some progr...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I do not know how often the right hon. Gentleman travels north of Watford, but I can tell him that S...
David Cairns | 492 c1585 (Link to this contribution) What country does he think Salford is in?
Lord Redwood | 492 c1585 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is deliberately misconstruing what I said. The point is that in its content...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1585-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has made his point and there is no need to reply to it. I shall begin to co...
Graham Stuart | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I apologise for failing to declare an interest. As a dire...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) The BBC fulfils a different role; it is not a commercial broadcaster. It is there to provide content...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) I am glad they are. To conclude, let us be clear what today's debate is about. It is about posturin...
Speaker | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's comments will now be on the record.
Speaker | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is obvious that the Secretary of State is no longer prepared to give way.
Andy Burnham | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) When in January 2007, my right hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood introduced the BB...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1587 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has brought a motion before the House today and he is asking us to vote on the li...
Lord Foster of Bath | 492 c1587-8 (Link to this contribution) For once, I am delighted to follow the Secretary of State. In my view, the Tory proposal is a dange...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1587 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State described our motion as an ill-conceived Tory attack, so can he tell me why e...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1587 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one last time, but then I am going to finish.
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1588 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman explain why, if the Tory proposal is so dangerous, two members of his party's...
Lord Foster of Bath | 492 c1588 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that we shall have to see whether, after those two hon. Members have read the Hansard repo...
John Grogan | 492 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) I am encouraged by some of the gestures coming from those on the Opposition Front Bench suggesting t...
John Grogan | 492 c1590 (Link to this contribution) I have not signed the early-day motion in question, and I rise briefly to support the Government and...
Lord Foster of Bath | 492 c1589-90 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman shortly, if he wishes to intervene then. We know that the BBC'...
Lord Foster of Bath | 492 c1589 (Link to this contribution) I wish I had not given way to the hon. Gentleman because I asked him a clear question: where does hi...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1583 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I should have made the point to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey a moment ago that the ...
Andy Burnham | 492 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I was not making that point. I was hoping that the hon. Gentleman would have the good grace to say t...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1577 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. We are talking about a £68 million rise in the ...
Graham Stuart | 492 c1586 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Secretary of State, who is being most kind in finally giving way to m...
Jeremy Hunt | 492 c1589 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asks me to suggest ways in which that £68 million can be found. We have talked ab...
Subjects
BBC Broadcasting programmes Finance Fees and charges Payments Television licences
Legislation
Communications (Television Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
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