BBC Funding
Debate between Nadine Dorries and Grahame Morris(2 years, 11 months ago)
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Ms Dorries
Increasing access to private equity was one of the first steps towards doing that.
Grahame Morris (Easington) (Lab)
We have already seen the loss of hundreds of jobs of BBC journalists involved in the much-valued regional news and current affairs programming, including the excellent “Inside Out” programme. Before making the decision to freeze the fee, what assessment did the Secretary of State make of the impact on local and regional news programming?
Ms Dorries
This is about increasing and reforming services across the BBC, to ensure that the BBC is there in the future and able to service the hon. Gentleman’s constituents, by adopting a funding model that means the BBC will be sustainable and will be there for the long term.
NHS Patient Data
Debate between Nadine Dorries and Grahame Morris(10 years, 8 months ago)
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Grahame M. Morris (Easington) (Lab)
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this timely debate, which is raising some important issues that we need clarity on. We have just come from a seminar in which the Health Committee had some expert witnesses. Does she agree with the conclusions put forward there about the need for clarity before we go ahead with this data collection? I am thinking particularly about the cyber-security review, safeguards on anonymous or pseudo-anonymous data, separating out purposes for controls, a tighter definition of the care data—
Nadine Dorries (in the Chair)
Order. Mr Morris, this is a 30-minute debate, so can you keep your intervention short, please?
Grahame M. Morris
I will. I just want to mention governance arrangements as well.
Grahame M. Morris
My hon. Friend is being very generous about interventions. Again, she makes an excellent point. We need an effective audit trail. If these data sets are being sold on, we need some effective control. That should be stopped. I hope that the Minister—
Grahame M. Morris
The Minister is arguing that the scheme is an extension of what happened before, but there is clearly a quantum difference. There is general agreement that it is a wonderful thing to have data sets for research and public health purposes. The difficulty that the public have, about which we need to restore confidence, is when that information is being used for marketisation—for marketing purposes—by commercial reusers. I am not reassured by the Minister’s comments, but he has an opportunity to correct the problem in the House of Lords.