Broadcasting

Debate between Liz Saville Roberts and John Nicolson

Tuesday 18th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd) (PC)]

This is a matter of equality. Welsh speakers in Wales have news programmes specifically for them about Welsh and international matters, but 80% of non-Welsh speakers in Wales do not get the same thing through their screens. I am sure that the same issues arise in Scotland.

[John Nicolson]

The hon. Lady makes a good point. There is a bit of irony here, because I looked at the Daily Mail after the Select Committee came out in favour of a separate Scottish Six and it condemned the decentralisation of broadcasting on a front page that was itself devolved. The Daily Mail does not run the same front page in Scotland as in the rest of the UK because it knows that the news priorities are different.