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News Corporation/BSkyB Merger

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

725 c1249-58 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Fowler | 725 c1253-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is not the trouble with Mr Murdoch’s assurances that, frankly, we have been down that road...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1253 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for those questions, and I will go through most of...

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Lord Borrie | 725 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall not repeat the excellent points made from the Front Bench by my noble friend Lady Jones, but...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1254 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very pleased that my noble friend, Lord Fowler, asks these questions. It gives me an ...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 725 c1255 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, alas, I fear that there is quite a lot of scepticism on the part of a number of your Lords...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1255 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Borrie, makes very valid points. He knows about independence and Ofcom from hav...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1255 (Link to this contribution) Understandably, there is a certain amount of scepticism about some of the details. As I say, this is...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 725 c1251-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for this Statement. For those of us who have been watching the progre...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1249-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with leave of the House I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right h...

Lord Kinnock | 725 c1257 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my personal affection and respect for the noble Baroness, Lady Rawlings, make me accept fr...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1256 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend Lord Razzall started off by asking about the merger and how the House had ...

Lord Razzall | 725 c1256 (Link to this contribution) My question is whether the financial obligations to fund Sky News will be absolutely guaranteed in t...

Lord De Mauley | 725 c1256 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, questions are expected to be brief.

Lord Elton | 725 c1257 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a brief question to ask my noble friend. As I understand it, the situation is that ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c1256 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is an abuse of our procedure. Would the Whips step in to sort it out?

Lord Razzall | 725 c1256 (Link to this contribution) I understood that. Perhaps I should move on swiftly. There clearly is suspicion about the role of in...

Lord Rees-Mogg | 725 c1256 (Link to this contribution) I am not an independent director of the Times and have no business connection with the Times other t...

Lord Razzall | 725 c1255-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Baroness indicated, when we debated this issue in November, with the possible...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1258 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Prescott, brought this up in our debate on my noble friend Lord Fowler’s Questi...

Lord Prescott | 725 c1258 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Statement, frankly, is largely about the price of shares and ownership of BSkyB, and ...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1257 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, asks me about the subsidy to Sky News. I am not aware of any ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c1257 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to follow up the question asked by the noble Baroness, Lady Howe of Idlicote...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1258 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend Lady Bonham-Carter is worried about continuing openness. News Corporation shares in ...

Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury | 725 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can I press the Minister on a concern of mine, which is about retaining the quality of jou...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1257 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend Lord Elton is absolutely right to say that it is 39.1 per cent, but I cannot give hi...

Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1257 (Link to this contribution) I cannot say anything about the final decision that the noble Lord, Lord Kinnock, has asked for. Thi...

Subjects

Competition Competition Commission Sky Ownership Public consultation Media Office of Fair Trading Ofcom Shares Television Takeovers News Corporation Sky News

Link

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