Parliamentary search - Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

454 c1173-245

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 3-EN also published.
Thursday, 16 November 2006
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Alun Michael | 454 c1186 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to give pleasure to the hon. Gentleman. I appreciate that he did not want an interrup...

Lord Swire | 454 c1186-7 (Link to this contribution) What is good news is the brevity of the right hon. Gentleman’s question. It is the first time that w...

Show all contributions (102)

Alun Michael | 454 c1186 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Swire | 454 c1186 (Link to this contribution) With great delight.

Mark Harper | 454 c1186 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend should note that the Ministry of Defence has a responsibility in the matter, in terms...

Lord Swire | 454 c1186 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I shall say something about that, and we will return to the matter in Commi...

Alun Michael | 454 c1184 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Swire | 454 c1184-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall make some progress, but I will give way in due course. For the record, can the Secretary of ...

Julie Kirkbride | 454 c1184 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is ironic that a regressive tax will be used to fund the assistanc...

Lord Swire | 454 c1184 (Link to this contribution) I may disagree with my hon. Friend on that point, but later, I shall try to tease out from the Gover...

Alun Michael | 454 c1200-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. People need such information and the point that I was making—the...

Roger Williams | 454 c1201 (Link to this contribution) Before the right hon. Gentleman moves on from discussing Wales, will he acknowledge that one of the ...

Michael Fabricant | 454 c1195 (Link to this contribution) While we want to see the most vulnerable given the opportunity to go digital as the Bill describes, ...

Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c1195 (Link to this contribution) There is a possible disincentive, but the Ofcom tracking survey suggests that many people from the v...

Richard Younger-Ross | 454 c1195 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the difficulties with forcing everyone to wait to receive help at the same time that i...

Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c1195 (Link to this contribution) The delay will cause that problem, and it is also doubtful whether enough people will have been trai...

Alun Michael | 454 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute and it is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for C...

Fraser Kemp | 454 c1200 (Link to this contribution) The use of video recorders is a point that has been raised with me. I accept that video recorders ar...

David Drew | 454 c1196 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the BBC appears to spend more and more time advertising its digit...

Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c1196-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point, but given that 75 per cent. of households have already swit...

Michael Moore | 454 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) that there is cross-par...

Russell Brown | 454 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. Other Members will probably be astonished to learn that the 30-minute n...

Paul Robert Holmes | 454 c1192-5 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is a narrow part of the much wider digital switchover process. The Liberal Democrats welcom...

Chris Bryant | 454 c1187 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there must be a choice of platforms across the whole country? So ...

Lord Swire | 454 c1187-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been assiduous in referring to this problem and has spoken for his constituen...

Russell Brown | 454 c1189-90 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am not sure whether I should declare an interest as ...

Michael Fabricant | 454 c1191 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised an important point, as did the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew)....

Russell Brown | 454 c1191 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct. There are technical difficulties in all this, which are way beyond my...

Eric Martlew | 454 c1191 (Link to this contribution) If it were not for the Solway my hon. Friend and I would be neighbours, and we share the Border tele...

Russell Brown | 454 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend and—were it not for that stretch of water—near neighbour. He and I are o...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 454 c1216 (Link to this contribution) At last.

Robert Syms | 454 c1216-8 (Link to this contribution) At last, as my hon. Friend says. It is remarkably difficult to cost such a scheme because nobody kno...

Alun Michael | 454 c1231 (Link to this contribution) We should note that Russell T. Davies has chosen to live in Manchester, however, and to have the ass...

Sian C James | 454 c1230-1 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak in the debate and to raise several issues that I have...

Peter Atkinson | 454 c1227-30 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan) and I agree with much of what he s...

John Grogan | 454 c1225-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart), who ...

Pete Wishart | 454 c1223-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Councils and local authorities have a vital role t...

John Robertson | 454 c1223 (Link to this contribution) Unusually, I agree with nearly everything that the hon. Gentleman says. Does he agree that local cou...

Jamie Reed | 454 c1218-21 (Link to this contribution) It makes a refreshing change to hear Whitehaven mentioned so often in a debate in the House of Commo...

Alun Michael | 454 c1201-4 (Link to this contribution) It is rightly said that nothing cannot be made to seem even more complicated than when it is describ...

John Robertson | 454 c1211-3 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister will allow it, I shall say a few points about some speeches that have been made, bec...

John Robertson | 454 c1213-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I know him well and I understand his point. The scenario that he describ...

Richard Younger-Ross | 454 c1213 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman speaks about people over 60. People do not have to be over 60 to require their ne...

Alun Michael | 454 c1204-5 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly convinced that those providing the services—people in local authorities and the BBC, ...

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 454 c1204 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend points to the services necessary to protect the vulnerable. He will know that I...

Peter Atkinson | 454 c1210 (Link to this contribution) What happens if the director-general of the BBC is right, and switchover costs the BBC more than the...

John Whittingdale | 454 c1205-9 (Link to this contribution) As has been said, the purpose of the Bill is relatively narrow, given that it focuses on one specifi...

Robert Syms | 454 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I should start by saying that I love watching television. In fact, the one small factor that made me...

Sian C James | 454 c1232 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend is aware that filming has gone on in his constituency and in mine, ...

Michael Moore | 454 c1232-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Swansea, East (Mrs. James), who has continued the the...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 454 c1235-7 (Link to this contribution) It has been a wide-ranging and interesting debate. We have had 11 speeches from Back Benchers, cover...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 454 c1237-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for clarifying that and, if these questions were asked whe...

Alun Michael | 454 c1237 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s flow, but my point was not about asking questions of...

Lord Swire | 454 c1241 (Link to this contribution) Six hundred million pounds.

Shaun Woodward | 454 c1240-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey) to his new portfolio. I am sure that he will add ...

Graham Stuart | 454 c1242 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister be specific about the £600 million cost? If the cost ultimately proves greater tha...

Shaun Woodward | 454 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to have remembered the figure—it is £600 million. He thought that he would ...

Shaun Woodward | 454 c1242-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not indulge him in giving him an answer to that. [Interru...

David Leslie Taylor | 454 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt the good intentions behind the legislation—in particular universal access—but I am su...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He and I are as one in being concerned that there must...

Alun Michael | 454 c1173 (Link to this contribution) As one side of the argument has been presented so early in the debate, I rise to ask the Secretary o...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 454 c1175 (Link to this contribution) Good one!

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1175 (Link to this contribution) We seem to have some cross-party agreement on this point, which is indeed a good one. I am sure that...

Chris Mullin | 454 c1175 (Link to this contribution) Am I right in thinking that the changeover is likely to give rise to a great deal of redundant recei...

Chris Mullin | 454 c1175 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way to me again. Ought not her Department to...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1173-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I thank my right hon. Friend for those comments and I pay tribute to the work that he did when ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1174-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that, but I am afraid that I am unable to give a specific response on the...

Andrew Mackinlay | 454 c1174 (Link to this contribution) I gave notice to the Secretary of State’s Parliamentary Private Secretary that I would raise this qu...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1174 (Link to this contribution) Effectively, a sunset clause will be operated once switchover is complete in 2012. Members might wis...

Greg Knight | 454 c1174 (Link to this contribution) On the safeguards point raised by the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor), once...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1177 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some more progress. Digital UK, for example, is working closely with the major chari...

Michael Fabricant | 454 c1177 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is quite right to point out how successful this country has been in ensuring ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1177 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has studied the matter over many years and makes an important point. We have to e...

Chris Bryant | 454 c1177-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has already made half of my argument about the enormous injustice faced by a ...

Richard Younger-Ross | 454 c1176 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to people buying new digital sets. One of the difficulties is that t...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) This is an absolutely critical point. Through Digital UK, retailers have undertaken extensive traini...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make some progress now, but I am not surprised by the number of interventions, because I h...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1176 (Link to this contribution) The technical problem is that if one boosts the digital signal, one knocks out or interferes with th...

John Robertson | 454 c1175 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is very gracious in allowing these interventions. Has she had words with the tr...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1175 (Link to this contribution) Well, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair...

Pete Wishart | 454 c1179 (Link to this contribution) I want to return briefly to the issue of freeview. Given the almost postcode lottery nature of the a...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1179 (Link to this contribution) The principle of universal access drives this whole policy and, by and large, that also creates for ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1178-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept the hon. Lady’s conclusion. She will know that Ofcom will publish tomorrow the first...

Julie Kirkbride | 454 c1178 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is making a very important point, but she has appeared to elide the issue of ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1178 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important point. In fact, progress is being made and public sector land...

Eric Martlew | 454 c1178 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned the conversion to North sea gas and I am old enough to remember it,...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Half the channels is absolutely right, but part of the success of freeview has been precisely becaus...

Chris Bryant | 454 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Half the channels.

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept my hon. Friend’s concern that it will be a second-rate service in any sense and I am...

Lord Swire | 454 c1183-4 (Link to this contribution) I have to confess to a sneaking admiration for the Secretary of State. She certainly does not shirk ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1181-3 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will contain his soul in patience for a few minutes, I will set out the costs ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1179-80 (Link to this contribution) In which case, I could keep going until 10 o’clock, but I might lose the House if I proceed on that ...

Michael Moore | 454 c1180 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State makes an important case: there are those who will need that support. Given th...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1180-1 (Link to this contribution) No, there will not be any retrospective provision, because the help scheme is intended to enable peo...

John Whittingdale | 454 c1181 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1181 (Link to this contribution) This is the last one.

John Whittingdale | 454 c1181 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State. She says that she has to balance the need to provide a...

John Whittingdale | 454 c1210-1 (Link to this contribution) If the BBC can demonstrate that the assistance package will cost more than it was told it would, it ...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Digital switchover in the United Kingdom is...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 454 c1179 (Link to this contribution) No one wants to speak.

Pete Wishart | 454 c1221-3 (Link to this contribution) I join the overwhelming majority of Members involved in this debate in welcoming the Bill. I think t...

Baroness Jowell | 454 c1179 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I will now make progress; otherwise nobody else will be able to speak in the debate.

Subjects

Access

Disclosure of information

Data protection

Consumers

Charities

BBC

Costs

Certification

Digital broadcasting

ICT

Eligibility