BBC Charter White Paper Debate

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BBC Charter White Paper

Baroness Benjamin Excerpts
Wednesday 11th May 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait Baroness Neville-Rolfe
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I am not sure that I understand the subtleties of my noble friend’s question—I know how expert he is. I look forward to talking to him about this point and answering tomorrow, but I can assure him that independence is extremely important and so is the BBC.

Baroness Benjamin Portrait Baroness Benjamin (LD)
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My Lords, what consideration have the Government given to contestable funding for UK children’s commercial programming? Will it be done by top-slicing BBC budgets or will new money be found for UK productions?

Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait Baroness Neville-Rolfe
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My Lords, children’s programming is extremely important and the BBC, as the noble Baroness knows, has been fantastic in this respect. I look forward to returning to the detail of all these points tomorrow.