Parliamentary search - BBC World Service

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Parliamentary proceeding

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522 c295

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c295 (Link to this contribution) The House will agree that the BBC World Service performs an invaluable role, reflecting British demo...

Denis MacShane | 522 c295 (Link to this contribution) To ask the Foreign Secretary if he will make a statement on BBC World Service cuts.

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Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. To reiterate the answer I just gave to the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (M...

Gerald Kaufman | 522 c299 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a fact that the BBC World Service is the most trusted voice in the world—more trusted than...

Barry Sheerman | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will know that there used to be a consensus throughout the House for supportin...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) There is a sort of ridiculous air to that question, if I may say so. Clearly, my announcement was no...

Meg Munn | 522 c301 (Link to this contribution) The BBC World Service provides a vital link to the outside world for oppressed countries and isolate...

Chris Bryant | 522 c303-4 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely certain that the World Service cannot be preserved in aspic, and that if Labour had ...

Nadhim Zahawi | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) The BBC Monitoring service is recognised globally as being of the highest quality, and it is essenti...

Damian Collins | 522 c301 (Link to this contribution) In his correspondence with Sir Michael Lyons, which has been placed in the Library today, the Foreig...

Robert Halfon | 522 c298 (Link to this contribution) Given the huge influence of Islamist television channels such as Hezbollah and al-Jazeera, will my r...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 522 c299 (Link to this contribution) Given the inevitable reordering of the finances of the World Service, does the Foreign Secretary agr...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 522 c300 (Link to this contribution) In response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr Foster), the Foreign Secretary acknowled...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) Both are absolutely essential for the future security of this country.

Frank Roy | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) This is a black day for more than 650 people who will lose their jobs. Among those will be foreign j...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c300 (Link to this contribution) None of us who are conscious of history can preside over a Government heading towards the bankruptcy...

Gregory Campbell | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) Given the scale of the Foreign Secretary's announcement, what guarantee can he give that the BBC's n...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c301 (Link to this contribution) I have paid tribute on many occasions to the staff involved and to the BBC for the service that it p...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c304-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course the Government considered that, as did the BBC World Service in drawing up the list o...

Douglas Alexander | 522 c297-8 (Link to this contribution) I should be interested if the Foreign Secretary could, for the sake of the House, adduce the evidenc...

John Baron | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) To follow up on that point, the BBC is very concerned about the plight of the foreign-born journalis...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 522 c300-1 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the BBC World Service, along with the British Council, has a h...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c303-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's question is a good deal more realistic than some that I have been asked in the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) There should be no question of that happening. We have well established procedures, over which the H...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's question raises a wider discussion about the western Balkans. We give a great deal ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) I stress to my hon. Friend that a good deal of the World Service's budget already counts as ODA-able...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c304 (Link to this contribution) They are two entirely unrelated issues. Does the hon. Gentleman not see the slightest irony in the f...

Lord Tyrie | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) There is very deep concern in the House about this decision, and I hope that the Foreign Secretary w...

Mike Gapes | 522 c299-300 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has referred several times to what happened under the previous Government. Wil...

Ian Murray | 522 c301 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary join me in paying tribute to all the staff of the BBC World Service worki...

Julian Huppert | 522 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) What analysis has the Foreign Secretary made of the benefits to Britain's foreign, development and e...

Fiona Mactaggart | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) At the moment, the audience for the BBC World Service is more than 240 million people around the wor...

Richard Ottaway | 522 c296-7 (Link to this contribution) The World Service together with the British Council are hugely valued services and probably the most...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c298 (Link to this contribution) In case there is any confusion, there is no connection between these reductions and the transfer of ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 522 c300 (Link to this contribution) I used to be accused of having a typical foreigner's emotional attachment to the World Service, and ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c298 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. That is, of course, a major area of the World Service's broadcasting. None of the langua...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c300 (Link to this contribution) As I said, a good deal of the expenditure is already ODA-able. I do not know what scope that leaves ...

Alun Michael | 522 c304 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary seems not to understand that his decisions will topple the BBC from its positi...

Lord Foster of Bath | 522 c298-9 (Link to this contribution) Cuts in the jewel in the crown of this country are clearly disappointing. Does the Foreign Secretary...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c299 (Link to this contribution) These are the straightforward facts of the matter. The fact that the previous Government closed 10 s...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c301 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the hon. Lady is absolutely right, and I certainly would not agree to the closure of services f...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c301 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I have met Sir Michael in person a couple of times. On the subject of what discussions are taki...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c300-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that was one reason why I was anxious to avoid a larger scal...

Ben Bradshaw | 522 c298 (Link to this contribution) These cuts are a direct result of the Foreign Secretary's decision to allow the funding of the World...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) The monitoring service is not part of today's announcement, but it will of course have to make savin...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c299 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. That was why I emphasised the changing nature of the demand...

Denis MacShane | 522 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the right hon. Gentleman that he is Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Fore...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Not only will the BBC be that, but it will have great potential for the future in working with ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c298-9 (Link to this contribution) I point out to my right hon. Friend that there are merits in the changes to the Russian and Chinese ...

Barry Gardiner | 522 c304 (Link to this contribution) Given that two of the greatest strengths of the World Service were to speak truth to the powerful an...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c299-300 (Link to this contribution) The previous Government doubled the national debt in four years and ran up a budget deficit of 11% o...

Jim Shannon | 522 c304-5 (Link to this contribution) Everyone in the House recognises very clearly the uniqueness and importance of the BBC World Service...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c296-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Indeed, there is some degree of excitement in the BBC Trust abou...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c297-8 (Link to this contribution) May I first of all welcome the right hon. Gentleman to the Dispatch Box? I look forward to working w...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c302 (Link to this contribution) I do not anticipate that anything that we are announcing today will have any impact on that importan...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Gentleman talks about Poland, one would never imagine that the World Service's P...

Paul Maynard | 522 c303 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has often spoken of the importance of soft power in diplomacy, particularly wi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 522 c304 (Link to this contribution) I pointed out how the growth of some services is taking place—I mentioned earlier how the use of the...

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