Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadine Dorries and Mick Whitley

Thursday 18th November 2021 Commons Chamber

[Ms Dorries]

I am happy to.

[Mick Whitley (Birkenhead) (Lab)]

Channel 4 makes an enormous contribution to job growth and region-based media production. In fact, of the 200 independent media production companies that Channel 4 has commissioned over the past two years, almost 140 rely on the broadcaster for at least half their work. Will the Minister concede that the privatisation of Channel 4 will endanger hundreds of jobs and make a mockery of the Government’s levelling-up agenda?