Lords statement on the publication of the interim report of the Digital Britain Review (Cm 7548).
Communications: Digital Britain
Ministerial statement on Thursday, 29 January 2009,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Carter of Barnes.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
707 c380-93 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c393 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if I am allowed to say so, few noble Lords are as renowned in the creative industry as the...
Lord Alli | 707 c392 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if I am on my feet, I will take the time that I have, if the House wishes to listen to me....
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Lord Swinfen | 707 c390-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I am disappointed with the statement that the speed of broadband is aimed to be two...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 707 c391-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, reverting to the question of media literacy, is my noble friend aware that his affirmation...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c391 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I turn first to the universal service commitment because this was what I would call a poin...
Lord Dubs | 707 c392 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome my noble friend’s Statement, and in particular his support for Britain’s creativ...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c392 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the Minister for broadcasting and communications, I share my noble friend’s view that i...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c392 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is one of the trickiest questions. Although it was said at a private breakfast meetin...
Baroness Thornton | 707 c392 (Link to this contribution)
Do be quick, my Lords; we have reached 20 minutes.
Lord Alli | 707 c392 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the Minister accept the deep concerns that some of us have about the creation of a se...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c390 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his constant enthusiastic support for this agenda. As he knows...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c389 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if my children are anything to go by, the noble Baroness is right. On media literacy, this...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 707 c389 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the Minister give more information about media literacy and content harmful to childr...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c388-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Bragg, knows my views on this question because I have bee...
Lord Maxton | 707 c390 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome this report, however interim it might be. It is both comprehensive and radical i...
Lord Inglewood | 707 c389 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Minister has explained what I might describe as his bipolar vision for public service ...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c389 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Low, for his comments. As I hope he knows, in previous lives ...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c387-8 (Link to this contribution)
We exchanged pleasantries over pastries, my Lords, and had a broad and far-ranging discussion about ...
Lord Bragg | 707 c388 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as an employee of ITV and a freelancer of the BBC. Does the Minister...
Lord Fowler | 707 c387 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have two quick questions. First, will the Minister confirm or deny the report in the Tim...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c385-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank both noble Lords for their responses to the Statement. If we are trading disappoin...
Lord Fowler | 707 c387 (Link to this contribution)
What did you talk about, then?
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c387 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on the noble Lord’s first question, there was indeed a breakfast this morning in Downing S...
Lord Luke | 707 c382-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement and for the advance notice of both the St...
Lord Clement-Jones | 707 c383-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Luke, in thanking the Minister for repeating the Statement. In...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c380-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat a Statement made in another place by my rig...
Lord Carter of Barnes | 707 c390 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, suggestions have been made by interested parties. Recently, the industry regulator put for...
Lord Low of Dalston | 707 c389 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of RNIB. I can assure the Minister that, on the fourth a...
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