Media: Ownership

Lord Pearson of Rannoch Excerpts

Thursday 11th November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Lord Inglewood]

My Lords—

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

Even so, my Lords, will the Government encourage the BBC to fulfil the single promise that it made in the wake of the Wilson report in 2005, which was to explain to the British people how the institutions of the European Union interact and their effect on British life?

[Baroness Rawlings]

The European Commission will have a role in this because it is wide-ranging. DG4 is examining whether the merger may result in a loss of effective competition in the market. It must decide by 8 December whether to clear the merger or to proceed to a full second stage of investigation.