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Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) , and it is hugely costly for butchers to train their staff—it is a very skilled job—and keep their licences - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) That has to change; we are all getting older and that knowledge is needed. - Speech Link
3: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) They are people who love what they do. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I know that some people are very keen to whip Brexit. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) As with television, we have seen a shift in how people enjoy the radio. - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) 2014, it was required to fund most of the World Service from the licence fee; from 2018, some over-75s licences - Speech Link
3: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) The invention of television allows us to be entertained by people in our living rooms—by people we would - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) For older children, the problem of audience loss becomes acute. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None undertaking a practical test of driving skills and behaviour in accordance with the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) undertaking a practical test of driving skills and behaviour in accordance with the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Dillington (XB - Life peer) the world.I do not know whether any of your Lordships have seen a series called “Vigil”, one of these television - Speech Link
4: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) this amendment —that it is the fault of the autonomous vehicle when the facts will be available on the television - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) These will also reflect the Bill’s specific requirements to consider the needs of older and disabled - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) continue to be broadcast via digital terrestrial television (DTT) and that sufficient licences are issued - Speech Link
2: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) This group of people primarily includes older residents, families in rural areas and those struggling - Speech Link
3: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) Protection for digital terrestrial television and radio broadcast services that people receive via an - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Online Filter Bubbles: Misinformation and Disinformation - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) However, the reason why it was so important for broadcasting and broadcasting licences to make sure that - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They say that as we grow older, we become more cynical. I would say that, no, we become sceptical. - Speech Link
3: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) When discussing this topic, we think of Americans with the Fox News logo burned on to the television - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Operators will of course be subject the ongoing requirements of their licences. - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) chance because we carried that many passengers, but you still have to be able to face the public, the television - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) and, increasingly, older pedestrians who on average tend to move more slowly and are more vulnerable - Speech Link
4: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) people or disabled people. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (Con - West Dorset) That is an unusually high age demographic, meaning that there are many older people who are not familiar - Speech Link
2: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) I met SSE and it turned out that every other telecoms provider agrees nationwide licences with SSE for - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) of all ages, particularly older people. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) a very long time—and the proportion of older people who speak Welsh, about a fifth, is much lower than - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Amendment 38 and new clause 9 relate to the archiving of television content.The television archives are - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) She is absolutely right that we currently see extremes for disabled people; we do not see them on television - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) and for renewing local licences. - Speech Link
5: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) In effect, Ofcom needs to change the licences of existing multiplex operators, because in the licences - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Elderly and Vulnerable People: Loneliness and Isolation - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) people in my constituency.It is appropriate to be holding a debate on loneliness among older people - Speech Link
2: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) The response was that the “vast majority” of licences were renewed online, and there was no guarantee - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) I have to say at this stage that taking away the free TV licences for over-75s did not help. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Media Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) We do not want Ofcom to have to take licences away. - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) coincide with national boundaries, which may mean that people on the border are receiving television - Speech Link
3: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) who hold Ofcom broadcast licences, plus the BBC and S4C. - Speech Link
4: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) When I worked on business television programmes at the BBC, there was a very small team of three people - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) how important it is that information and services are available to everyone, including those who are older - Speech Link