BBC Charter Review (Communications Committee Report)

My Lords, I, too, welcome the opportunity of this debate. Like the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, I am ...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Best, and members of his committee on an exce...

My Lords, I too speak as a member of the Select Committee that produced this report. I must decla...

My Lords, I have the very great pleasure to serve on the Select Committee on Communications, unde...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a producer and director in BBC television, and I am very grate...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the Communications Select Committee, under its excellent chair, th...

My Lords, I have been in your Lordships’ House for only 52 years but I used to do media research,...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Best, on securing this debate at a particularly tim...

My Lords, like all noble Lords who have spoken so far in the debate, I congratulate the noble Lor...

My Lords, I am delighted to take part in this debate on the Select Committee report on the future...

My Lords, I rise with some trepidation. As the register of interests notes, I am that much malign...

My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, and the Communications Committee for this exce...

My Lords, I, too, want to pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Best, who chaired our committee. I ...

My Lords, it is good hear all the tributes to the committee and its chair, the noble Lord, Lord B...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, for being a wonderful chairman and I thank my fellow...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating and wide-ranging debate and I declare an interest as a form...

My Lords, I must at once declare a dual interest, having been a presenter for the BBC for some 40...

My Lords, coming 20th out of 21 speakers is not a great position to be in. I endorse most of the ...

My Lords, I am last but, I hope, not least. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, for the excellent ...

I am afraid that the noble Lord, Lord Maxton, is not the last.

I add my thanks to the noble...

My Lords, this has been a good debate and we owe a great deal to the noble Lord, Lord Best, and t...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Best, for introducing this very timely debat...

So far, my noble friend has said that there is basically going to be no change—certainly not to t...

As I said right at the beginning, the detail and nature of the parliamentary scrutiny of the char...

Does the Minister appreciate that everything that she is saying makes me more and more depressed ...

I cannot anticipate what the White Paper will say. I have tried, partly by encouraging the usual ...

I ask a quick but quite important question. I listened very carefully to the remarks by the noble...

No decisions have been taken on Channel 4. Obviously I hear what the noble Lord has said; equally...

My Lords, six hours on, I am deeply grateful to everybody for their contributions. I feel privile...