Public Service Broadcasting Online Debate
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Lord Blunkett
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Public Service Broadcasting Online
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Baroness Barran (Con)
I can reassure the noble Lord that this will be part of the review that we will be undertaking.
Lord Blunkett (Lab)
My Lords, I would be deeply comforted by the noble Baroness’s answers this afternoon if it were not for the fact that the Secretary of State has established an advisory panel whose membership, it has to be said, is imbalanced in terms of their experience, history and known views. What is the role of the advisory panel in sustaining PSB when so many members are clearly against it?
Baroness Barran (Con)
I am grateful to the noble Lord for his question. Obviously, all members of the panel are expected to operate in an independent capacity. Their role is in relation t advising the Government on some of the complex policy issues, with which the noble Lord is very familiar.