Broadcasting: Product Placement Debate

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Broadcasting: Product Placement

Lord Skelmersdale Excerpts
Monday 16th May 2011

(13 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Rawlings Portrait Baroness Rawlings
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My Lords, I am sure that my noble friend Lady Benjamin and the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, would like to have more programmes for children, and more money going into those programmes. However, Ofcom is independent and it would be wrong if we started to try to influence it in any way.

Lord Skelmersdale Portrait Lord Skelmersdale
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My Lords, what clout does Ofcom have against transgressors in this particular area?

Baroness Rawlings Portrait Baroness Rawlings
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I am afraid that I cannot remember the details of Ofcom’s regulatory process for people who transgress in this area.