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Nigel Huddleston Excerpts

Thursday 15th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Karen Bradley]

Obviously the BBC needs to produce original content, but the fact that it does so by commissioning through independent production companies means that we have a thriving independent production sector which can then sell to the rest of the world. I encourage the BBC to do that, to ensure that we have those creative clusters. An amazing amount of activity and a number of new businesses have resulted from the BBC’s presence in Manchester, and its commissioning of programmes there.

[Nigel Huddleston (Mid Worcestershire) (Con)]

Does the Secretary of State share my hope, and that expressed by Clare Balding, that the revealing of “talent” salaries will not reveal a gender pay gap?

[Karen Bradley]

That is a good point.