Telegraph Media Group Ltd: Acquisition

Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Tuesday 30th April 2024

(5 days, 2 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Chair of the Select Committee.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Dame Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement and the decision of RedBird IMI, in effect, to withdraw from purchasing the Telegraph. Freedom and plurality are, of course, cornerstones of our media, and political interventions should always be the last resort, but I agree with her that it is absolutely unacceptable for foreign states to have the potential to interfere with the independence and freedom of our press. What is RedBird’s role during the period it takes for a prospective buyer to be found? Will it be able to hold a non-controlling stake in the Telegraph at the end of this process?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Monday 19th February 2024

(2 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. May I also suggest that it is not for the Government to be asking the questions?

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Dame Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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8. What plans he has for the future of the rotary wing enterprise.

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Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Thursday 16th November 2023

(5 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Chair of the Select Committee.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Dame Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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The inclusion of football governance in the King’s Speech is very welcome. Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm what discussions she has had with the FA on whether the independent regulator will include women’s football, and when the Government intend to publish their response to the Carney review?

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Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Thursday 20th July 2023

(9 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Dame Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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As you know, Mr Speaker, local radio is such a lifeline to many of the elderly, vulnerable and isolated people in our communities. I wonder whether the Minister has a view on what the words “public service” in the BBC’s public service remit actually mean. Should that not include reaching everyone with local news and information, not just those who are digitally enabled?

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Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Monday 25th October 2021

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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We come now to the newly named Department. We have questions for the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communications—[Interruption.] I mean Communities, not communications! I hope that there will be communications, because otherwise we will be in trouble.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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1. When his Department will publish its response to the consultation on the planning for the future White Paper.

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Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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I welcome the Secretary of State to his role.

The Gosport peninsula is more than 80% built on, and a further 12% of it is conservation area. There is simply nowhere to build the wildly unrealistic 2014 housing numbers without decimating any remaining green areas and, of course, the vital strategic gap. Worse, the 2018 Office for National Statistics population data reveal that our actual housing need is 3,000 fewer homes. I really understand that the nation needs houses, but this Government champion localism. Will he please give me hope that they will not be imposing unrealistic, outdated housing numbers on us?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Secretary of State.

UK Musicians: EU Visa Arrangements

Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Tuesday 19th January 2021

(3 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Crispin Blunt Portrait Crispin Blunt (Reigate) (Con) [V]
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I thank you, Mr Speaker, and the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) for providing the opportunity to help the Minister correct the misleading social media chatter among professional musicians and other performance artists, and from Opposition Members, about exactly where the responsibility lies for this situation. Will she confirm my impression that the European Union negotiators appear to have rather cynically used and abused the interests of its musicians and its music fans to undermine the United Kingdom Government’s commitment to its own citizens around regaining control of our borders? However ungrateful and ungracious the Musicians’ Union has been in regard to my hon. Friend’s efforts—

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I call the Minister, please. That was far too long a question.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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My hon. Friend is right that we did fight very hard for this. We understand this not just for performers from the UK, but—he is absolutely right—for performers from the EU as well, because the UK music scene is, I would say, the best in the world, and putting any obstacles or tests in the way of EU performers coming here is a very difficult position for them as well. We are a lot more forthcoming: we do not put in place work permits, and we have a lot more sensitive approaches to visas for performers coming across from the EU. It would have been lovely for that to have been the situation right across all EU member states as well.

ARM: Foreign Acquisition

Debate between Caroline Dinenage and Lindsay Hoyle
Monday 21st September 2020

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Has the Minister been told? Three people are meant to know in an Adjournment debate: the Minister, the Chair, and the person whose debate it is.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am happy, but the courtesies have not been carried out, as I understand it.