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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) Local commercial radio, whether in Lancashire or Suffolk, can fill the gap left by the reduction in BBC - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) Friend on the importance of local radio to listeners across the UK, and I know that he is an effective - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) Given Ofcom’s comments that it is considering whether its proposals for regulation of local radio are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Palestine - Mon 08 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) In the Red sea, the Houthis’ attacks against commercial shipping are patently unacceptable. - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) In the Red sea, all the targeting of commercial ships and international trade routes that puts civilians - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) said that, in Gaza:“There will be no electricity and no water…there will only be destruction”On LBC radio - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) In the light of Tzipi Hotovely’s statement on LBC radio that the destruction of Gaza should continue - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Three and Vodafone: Potential Merger - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) We are asking ourselves whether we should be allowing the rigorous commercial pursuit of 5G, when there - Speech Link
2: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) it well in her email:“How can we level up as a rural community when it’s hard to tune in to digital radio - Speech Link
3: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) told me that under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1988, forces are not permitted to take non-commercial - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) to the United Kingdom, but it requires billions of pounds of investment, which has to come from the commercial - Speech Link


Written Statements
Land Environment Tactical Communication and Information Systems - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) contract with BAE Systems (signed August 2023) and is on track to deliver from March 2026.The multi-mode radio - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Minutes of Proceedings - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) If a recording of a UK artist, composer, publisher or record label is aired on a UK radio channel, we - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) It promised that the state would not influence commercial considerations. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) It wanted to acquire the subsidiary rights to every mercantile law—what a beautiful name—and commercial - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Secondly, should we not have an assessment of the likely impact of the mechanism where foreign commercial - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Broadband: Rural Communities - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) “Ruthless”, “commercial”, “yield maximising” and “predatory organisations” are terms often associated - Speech Link
2: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) That is why I called out earlier the pretty ruthless, commercial and yield-maximising approach of some - Speech Link
3: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) really am worried about the final 5%, and I think that not enough is being done to look at satellite, radio - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) 100,000 very hard-to-reach premises, but their delivery costs are likely to be above the limits of commercial - Speech Link
5: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) The vast majority in each of these cases will, we hope, be covered by either the commercial sector or - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Paul Holmes (Con - Eastleigh) Talking of Christmas turkeys, this morning the Leader of the Opposition gave an interview on Radio 4 - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) We repeatedly sought information, but were met with claims of commercial confidentiality whenever we - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage:s: 6th sitting - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) important backstop that will ensure compliance with the regime while incentivising mutually beneficial commercial - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) programming year on year, just to keep provision at the same level, but where there is a need to meet commercial - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) It is more challenging for commercial television, as those broadcasters are dependent on advertising - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) I appreciate the Minister’s point about it being harder for commercial stations than it perhaps is for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
BBC Funding - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None We are already supporting the BBC to realise commercial opportunities that will make it more financially - Speech Link
2: None The review will include looking at how the BBC can increase its commercial revenues to reduce the burden - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) This has seen, for example, local radio services streamlined. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) the country while boosting local economies and utilising local skills—except that cuts to BBC local radio - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage:s: 5th sitting - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) An awful lot of the time that is either commercial radio or BBC radio.Commercial radio is already highly - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) they catch news bulletins on commercial radio. - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) It is particularly important for the BBC but also for commercial radio platforms. - Speech Link
4: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) radio is run, how advertising pays for commercial radio and how it is able to produce its services and - Speech Link