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Moved by
Lord Best
32A: After Clause 81, insert the following new Clause—
“BBC ...
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 32B and 32C, which are also in the names of the noble ...
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My Lords, I regret that my ill health prevented me from being present on Monday 20 March, when th...
I refer briefly to our previous debate when the House was considering the Bill, when I raised my ...
I support the amendments. As I mentioned in Committee, I am a Member of the House of Lords Commun...
I have added my name to Amendment 32E from the noble Lord, Lord Lester, and I agree with all the ...
I am also a member of the Communications Committee. My noble friend Lord Best set out our positio...
Can I just be marginally controversial? I accept the first amendment, which would establish a BBC...
My Lords, it is hard to improve on the excellent summary by the noble Lord, Lord Best, of the gla...
My Lords, my media interests can be found in the register. As many other noble Lords have said, i...
My Lords, in supporting my noble friend Lord Best, I point out that the reprehensible situation i...
My Lords, I observe only that if you wish to access the BBC on iPlayer, for example, when you liv...
My Lords, I express the support of these Benches for the amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Best....
My Lords, we return to an issue that I know interests a great many noble Lords: the funding of th...
Can the Minister tell the House what other form of taxation—I accept his definition that the lice...
I do not quite know what the noble Lord means by taxes being covered by the Freedom of Informatio...
With all respect to the Minister, the BBC is not covered entirely by the Freedom of Information A...
I take the noble Lord’s word for that because he knows more about it than I do.
The Minister said that the Government did not consult on taxes in the way that has been suggested...
The point that I made was that, when setting taxes, the Government have to take account of the ov...
The Minister has not answered my question, which was, quite simply, whether this Government—not o...
I was aware of the noble Lord’s question and was just about to come to it. The BBC charter alread...
What does that answer mean? The charter does not say what I have just asked the Minister. Is he s...
I think I can answer that to the noble Lord’s satisfaction. Yes, I will certainly talk to the Sec...
I am puzzled by what the Minister has said, because he is saying two incompatible things. He is t...
With respect, I did not say that. I said that the Government would not consult on taxes. Of cours...
The Minister said a moment ago that the Minister—in this case, the Secretary of State—must do as ...
I do not completely follow the noble Lord. If the charter was changed, presumably the Secretary o...
I am sorry if was not clear. The charter clearly said that the licence fee may not be used to fun...
I agree that a retrospective change in legislation of the charter is never a happy process—but, i...
My Lords, I am grateful to the 10 noble Lords who spoke in support of my amendment. The only mode...
Moved by
Baroness Benjamin
33ZZA: After Clause 82, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I declare an interest as per the register as I rise to speak to my Amendment 33ZZA, whi...
My Lords, briefly, I very much support this amendment and above all salute the work of the noble ...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, on her continuous hard work on this i...
My Lords, Amendments 33ZZA and 35A concern the important issue of children’s television, which I ...
My Lords, it is moments such as this that demonstrate the importance of this House, with everyone...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
33ZA: Clause 85, page 89, line 4, after “impose” insert “...
My Lords, I apologise on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Gordon of Strathblane, and my noble frien...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for his comments on the amendment I moved i...
My Lords, I shall focus briefly on the principles shared by the amendments proposed by noble Lord...
I shall be very brief. I thank the Government about listed events. They are important for sportin...
My Lords, I apologise to the House: I should have declared my interest as a long-standing trustee...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. Government Amendments 33ZD a...
My Lords, I thank the Minister, first, for the introduction to her very welcome amendments. I joi...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
33ZD: Clause 85, page 89, leave out lines 15 to 19 and i...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
33ZF: Clause 85, page 90, line 42, at end insert—
...
Moved by
Lord Wood of Anfield
33ZG: After Clause 86, insert the following new Clause—...
My Lords, Amendment 33ZG has a simple purpose: to ensure that high-quality public service broadca...
I support this important amendment. In Committee, the Minister rejected the need for change. He s...
My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment because it is important to future-proof the promi...
My Lords, I declare an interest as a past deputy chairman of the BBC. Public service broadcasting...
My Lords, some time in the mid-1990s, I drove to west London to Sky’s warehouse-style offices to ...
I shall not repeat the comments that I made in Committee on this matter. I thank the noble Lord, ...
My Lords, public service broadcasting prominence on the EPG is an issue that has come up at every...
I thank all noble Lords for an excellent short debate; I will respond very briefly. I thank the M...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
33ZH: After Clause 87, insert the following new Clause—<...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
33ZJ: Before Clause 88, insert the following new Clause—...
My Lords, during the passage of this Bill there has been debate on the state of the UK’s fibre ne...
My Lords, as someone who has proposed amendments that go some way in this direction, I welcome th...
My Lords, rather like the last speaker, I welcome this measure but am a bit nervous about it. The...
My Lords, I thank both noble Lords for their qualified support; I hope that by the time I have fi...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
33ZL: After Clause 91, insert the following new Clause—<...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for adding his name to this government...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 33ZLZA, 33ZLZB, and 33ZLZC, which stand in my name.
I ...
My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, has spoken extremely eloquently in support of his ame...
My Lords, many of us have been around this block many times before, and here we are again discuss...
My Lords, I have been following the progress of this arrangement between all sides because the no...
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords and I will try to be quick because I want to move on t...
Moved by
Lord Moynihan
33ZLZA: After Clause 91, insert the following new Clause—
<...My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and all noble Lords who have participated in this debate....