Broadcasting: Children’s Television Debate
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Baroness Featherstone
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(1 year, 9 months ago)
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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con)
The Young Audiences Content Fund was always designed as a three-year pilot. Now that it is over, it is right that we assess the contestable funding model as a whole to understand how it can be used to help. Any further investment of public funding will need to be considered against that and future broadcasting needs, but we are supporting children’s television to ensure that future generations can benefit from it just as much as past ones have.
Baroness Featherstone (LD)
My Lords, what steps are the Government taking to ensure that the children’s television production sector is internationally competitive?
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con)
With our wider support for the broadcasting system set out in the White Paper, we are ensuring that all our public service broadcasters can compete with the new streaming platforms we see entering the market. The media Bill will deliver on some of the proposals put forward in the White Paper.