Statement on the Digital Britain report (Cm 7650).
Digital Britain
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
494 c165-81
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
As we make clear in the report, we are keen to see a solution. We think it important that Channel 4 ...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c173-4 (Link to this contribution)
As a former BBC employee, I agree with my right hon. Friend. The BBC is the best broadcasting organi...
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Ben Bradshaw | 494 c174 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly welcome that, and I warmly invite anyone in the House to come up with a better idea of how ...
Judy Mallaber | 494 c174 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome my right hon. Friend's reference to the safety and well-being of children through the prop...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c174 (Link to this contribution)
Either I or the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, my hon. Friend the Member for...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 494 c174-5 (Link to this contribution)
On the copyright tribunal, there are some very interesting recommendations—hidden away in the report...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
I shall have to write to the hon. Gentleman with the answers to those two questions.
Gerald Kaufman | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
In congratulating my right hon. Friend on his appointment, may I point out to him that in an era whe...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry that my right hon. Friend takes that approach; I hope to be able to convince him over the...
Tim Yeo | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Secretary of State agree that his statement leaves a question mark over the funding of Chan...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c172 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, I certainly agree with that. The time between now and the next parliamentary Session gives us a...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c172 (Link to this contribution)
I expect that competition among the English regions to be part of the pilot will be very stiff indee...
Lembit Opik | 494 c173 (Link to this contribution)
Is the Minister aware that Michael Grade has said in the past four years that""the idea of contestab...
Derek Wyatt | 494 c173 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome our support for regional and local news, but my question is about mathematics. As I unders...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c173 (Link to this contribution)
I am not a mathematician—I got only as far as GCSE—but I do not think my hon. Friend's figures are r...
Gavin Strang | 494 c173 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend agree that the BBC is a truly great British institution and achievement, f...
Speaker | 494 c173 (Link to this contribution)
Is that it already?
Speaker | 494 c173 (Link to this contribution)
I call Dr. Gavin Strang.
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c178 (Link to this contribution)
We will have to wait to see what bids we get from the consortiums who will be opening up the bidding...
Lindsay Hoyle | 494 c178 (Link to this contribution)
I am a member of the Business and Enterprise Committee, and as we have heard, we are going to look i...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c178-9 (Link to this contribution)
What we have announced today will, I believe, help lead to a real thriving of local and community ra...
Speaker | 494 c179 (Link to this contribution)
Order. There are a few hon. Members still to ask questions, and if questions are brief—brief questio...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c177 (Link to this contribution)
We have gone for 2 megabits per second because we had to decide what was the best value for money in...
Angela C Smith | 494 c177 (Link to this contribution)
Does the report recognise the importance of ensuring that all our schools and colleges can not only ...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c177-8 (Link to this contribution)
I think I can give my hon. Friend that assurance, but I will write to her, perhaps jointly with my r...
Viscount Thurso | 494 c178 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State rightly said that if it were left to the market, a third of the country would...
Steve Webb | 494 c177 (Link to this contribution)
Given the rapid speed of technological progress, the goal of 2 megabits per second, although it woul...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c177 (Link to this contribution)
The new champion, Martha Lane Fox, will examine that issue, with the support of a considerable amoun...
Christopher Fraser | 494 c176-7 (Link to this contribution)
In making a bid for East Anglia, may I ask whether the Secretary of State accepts that in very rural...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c177 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree that there are particular challenges in rural areas; as somebody who was brought up...
John Grogan | 494 c176 (Link to this contribution)
Ofcom, the regulator, has estimated that the residual value of the ITV licence will be £45 million a...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c176 (Link to this contribution)
We are certainly looking at the role that advertising could play to help supplement the support that...
Pete Wishart | 494 c176 (Link to this contribution)
We can all support the intention to improve the UK's digital infrastructure, but surely we should be...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c176 (Link to this contribution)
That is not a fair reflection of what is in the report, and when the hon. Gentleman has time to read...
Alun Michael | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
I would like to put on record my personal thanks to you, Mr. Speaker, for the generosity of spirit t...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c175 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, I do—and that is exactly what the document seeks to do.
John Robertson | 494 c177 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend touched on social exclusion. I raised this at the time of the interim report, a...
Lord Foster of Bath | 494 c170-1 (Link to this contribution)
Ensuring the success of our creative economies will be critical in rebuilding our economy, as the Se...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c170 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. Again, he may not have had time to look at the repo...
Janet Anderson | 494 c172 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, welcome what the Secretary of State has said about support for local and regional news. I kn...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c171-2 (Link to this contribution)
There was a lot in that question. Let me begin with the hon. Gentleman's last point, because it was ...
Jeremy Hunt | 494 c167-9 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Secretary of State for giving me prior notice both of the report and of his statement, a...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c165-7 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall make a statement on the publication of the "Digital Britain" r...
Lord Blunkett | 494 c170 (Link to this contribution)
May I thank you personally, Mr. Speaker, for the courtesy and kindness that you have shown me over t...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c169-70 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentioned the role that Lord Carter of Barnes has played in this r...
Adam Price | 494 c179 (Link to this contribution)
Will the budget for the new Welsh pilot on public content be close to the £25 million annually that ...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will have to write to him with the details of funding for t...
Julie Kirkbride | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the new Secretary of State on his willingness to take on the vested interests of the ...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
We have specifically been careful with the wording in the document. I think that we say "primarily" ...
Richard Ottaway | 494 c179 (Link to this contribution)
In view of the concerns expressed by ITV about is financial viability, why is the Secretary of State...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c179 (Link to this contribution)
We are not doing nothing before then to help regional and local news provision. We have said that we...
Stephen Ladyman | 494 c179 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend's statement was strong on improving the infrastructure, but he was less explici...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c179 (Link to this contribution)
Yes. If my hon. Friend looks at the section at the end of my statement about the implications for Go...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
We are not doing that. As I made clear, we will ensure that the guarantee for today's technology is ...
Alistair Carmichael | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome two aspects of today's report: the principle of a universal service obligation for broadba...
Nigel Evans | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
I am in favour of the gouging of the licence fee—it is not sharing, but top-slicing. It concedes tha...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c181 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, certainly. I will undertake to write to the hon. Gentleman about the specific problems that he ...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c181 (Link to this contribution)
I will happily look at the technology that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned and reflect that as part...
Michael Moore | 494 c181 (Link to this contribution)
After 12 years of this Government's broadcasting policy, my constituents are still left with a secon...
Roger Williams | 494 c181 (Link to this contribution)
A number of hon. Members believe that rural communities will be at the end of the queue when it come...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c180 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman was always fonder of brutalist language than me. He says top-slicing, I say shari...
Robert Smith | 494 c180-1 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State said that digital radio would be the primary platform by 2015. What reassuran...
John Whittingdale | 494 c172 (Link to this contribution)
Although I share some of the reservations expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surr...
Ben Bradshaw | 494 c181 (Link to this contribution)
It will remain on FM for some of the new local and community radio provision that I outlined. We wil...
Peter Luff | 494 c174 (Link to this contribution)
I say a provisional thank you to the Secretary of State for what appears to be a commitment—buried d...
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