Oral Answers to Questions

Ian Paisley Excerpts
Thursday 1st December 2022

(1 year, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Paul Scully Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Paul Scully)
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I entirely agree that social mobility is at the heart of what we want to do, and I congratulate those four institutions. If the Minister for Arts and Heritage or the Secretary of State will not come to Hastings and Rye, I certainly will.

Ian Paisley Portrait Ian Paisley (North Antrim) (DUP)
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T4. Why is there no right to appeal against decisions made by the executive complaints unit in the BBC? Does the Minister agree that it would strengthen confidence in the BBC if there were an independent complaints process enabling people to appeal against those decisions?

Julia Lopez Portrait The Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Julia Lopez)
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I know that this is a long-running issue of concern for the hon. Gentleman. The BBC announced some changes to its complaints process yesterday, but I appreciate that he does not think they are strong enough. We will be looking into this in the course of our reviews of the organisation.