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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 24 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Vaizey of Didcot. The answering member was Ben Bradshaw.

Local Media

Westminster hall debate on a motion for the adjournment on local media. (Relevant documents: Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee fourth report of session 2009-10 HC 43, and the Government response thereto, Cm 7882.) Motion made, and Question proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
512 c145-72WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 512 c145WH (Link to this contribution) I call Mr Ed Vaizey. [Hon. Members: "Hear, hear!"]
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c145WH (Link to this contribution) What a great pleasure it is to open this debate under your chairmanship, Mr Benton. I thank hon. Mem...
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Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c145WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Benton. I apologise for interrupting the Minister. Would it be in order for ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c150WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bath (Mr Foster) wants to answer the question, so I am tempted not to answer it,...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c149WH (Link to this contribution) As some of us have not had the opportunity of seeing the answer, would my hon. Friend the Minister b...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c149WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, I am against Government waste, and it seems pointless to repeat that an...
Philip Davies | 512 c149WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what my hon. Friend has said, but does he accept that in places such as Yorkshi...
Speaker | 512 c145WH (Link to this contribution) I see nothing wrong with that, as long as they have a decent shirt on. [Laughter.]
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c145-9WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Benton, for that important ruling, which was effectively ex post facto, as I noticed t...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c149WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister do me the honour of defining the term "super-fast broadband"?
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c149WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is fully aware, I have answered a parliamentary question on that point, and I ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c150WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to welcome my hon. Friend, the new Member for Hove, who has had a distinguished caree...
Mike Weatherley | 512 c150WH (Link to this contribution) I feel that I am missing out on some of the definitions here. May I, too, please receive the Ministe...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c163WH (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman has asked a straight question, may I read to him from the coalition agre...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c162WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to make the first intervention on a new Member. I did not realise that we had t...
Mike Weatherley | 512 c161-2WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Benton, for pointing that out. I appreciate it. We also have several good, strong loc...
Speaker | 512 c161WH (Link to this contribution) Order. May I in the nicest way possible put it to the hon. Gentleman that he should not use personal...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c166-8WH (Link to this contribution) This has been an enjoyable and illuminating debate. Before turning to the myriad questions put by th...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c168WH (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the Minister give us an example of a single policy from the Department for Cultur...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c164WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that as we have a few minutes ahead of us, the former Secretary of State will not mind my ...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c163-4WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, but the hon. Gentleman has read out a rather long list of policies that were also Conservative ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c170WH (Link to this contribution) The Opposition spokesman has read out my definition, and I wonder what all the fuss is about. What c...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his comments, and if I was deploying Rumsfeldian rhetoric in this ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c168WH (Link to this contribution) I did not come to this debate as well prepared as the hon. Member for Bath, who clearly anticipated ...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c169-70WH (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves off broadband, I thought that it might be helpful if I provided him with h...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point, and let me say that we can agree on a number of levels. As he sai...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c170WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He knows that we have plenty of time to develop such a...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c171-2WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The matter is, in effect, an argument between two competing businesses and business mode...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c151-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely clear—I cast a panicked look at my officials—whether those terms of reference have...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c151WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for hogging the Minister's time. Have the terms of reference for the review been publish...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 512 c151WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to reassure them; we see local newspaper groups as having an opportunity with local telev...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c151WH (Link to this contribution) I have not had the chance to read in detail the Minister's vision for a multi-platform local media e...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c152-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Benton, and to give a speech that I did not kn...
Speaker | 512 c152WH (Link to this contribution) If you prefer, you may do so. I call Mr Tom Watson.
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c152WH (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, Mr Benton, but I understood that I would speak towards the end of the debate. I can then...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c155WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, the hon. Gentleman is right. In an article in The Daily Telegraph last week, the Secretary of S...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c155-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson) and to serve und...
Philip Davies | 512 c154-5WH (Link to this contribution) I support what the hon. Gentleman says. Does he agree that it is bad enough when local authorities u...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c157WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, but two wrongs do not make a right for a start. He should loo...
Philip Davies | 512 c157WH (Link to this contribution) If that is the case, and top-slicing undermines the BBC's independence, is the hon. Gentleman saying...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c157WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman should know better than to ask me of all people that question, because he k...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c157WH (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves away from the question of the BBC and top-slicing, have not the Gove...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c158-9WH (Link to this contribution) That is obviously a matter for subsequent announcements that the Minister will no doubt make. I do n...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c157WH (Link to this contribution) If we are only talking about the underspend from the digital switchover before 2014, how will the co...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 512 c159WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will not be able to answer this, because none of us has an answer, but although I...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c159WH (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but all I am suggesting is that I hope the review will consider...
John McDonnell | 512 c159-60WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for coming late to the debate, Mr Benton, because of an earlier ministerial meeting. Oth...
Lord Foster of Bath | 512 c160WH (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says. In the most appropriate way that I can, given the rather strang...
Mike Weatherley | 512 c160-1WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Benton, for giving me an opportunity to speak today. This is not my maiden speech; it ...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c162-3WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the debate. At the beginning of it, the Minister made much of how the new Government want ...
Mike Weatherley | 512 c162WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I, too, am looking forward to the definition of sup...
Ben Bradshaw | 512 c164-6WH (Link to this contribution) We were absolutely clear about that, in our manifesto, in the "Digital Britain" White Paper and in a...
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Broadcasting Digital broadcasting Finance Media Radio Local broadcasting Local press
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