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HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIWe are looking at how we regulate online content alongside standard broadcasting and other media output. One outcome of the mid-term review is that some of the BBC’s online…30 Jan 2024HANSARDMedia BillI appreciate that my hon. Friend wants to put down a marker on the issue—I have heard that, and so has the Secretary of State. I maintain that the issue of rights is more complex…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIAs I have said in answers to similar questions, we have powers to look into some of those investment and ownership questions, and they do not relate just to the media. We now have…30 Jan 2024HANSARDMedia BillWe have concerns about my right hon. Friend’s amendments as a package. One issue is about delay, but another is about some of the smaller publishers that do not wish to be part of…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIPerhaps not.30 Jan 2024HANSARDMedia BillI thank Members for their contributions to today’s debate, and indeed during prelegislative scrutiny and the Bill’s passage thus far. The Bill has fantastic support. I have worked…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII thank my right hon. Friend for making that simple point. It is one that I am sure will be considered once this case has passed.30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIThat point has been raised by a number of hon. Members. We have tools for these kinds of acquisitions, as can be seen in the public interest intervention notices that we have…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII thank my right hon. Friend for his mischievous suggestion. I could not possibly comment on it, but I am sure that it has been heard.30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII thank the hon. Gentleman for raising an issue of principle, which I perfectly understand, as something that I speak about in relation to the BBC, and how it must have editorial…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII hope the hon. Gentleman does not mind me saying so, but I believe that when I last saw him, he was on his way to a Spectator Burns night party, so I hope the relationship is…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIMy right hon. and learned Friend is right to say that the Secretary of State will be under specific obligations to consider this matter without politics. Both the CMA and Ofcom…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII thank the right hon. Gentleman for speaking on behalf of the NUJ and for raising what this means for media plurality and the ability of journalists to hold us here to account. I…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII did not say I would give no answers; I said I would be able to give general answers, and my right hon. Friend will understand why. These are very precise processes that must be…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII apologise, Mr Speaker, for over-speaking. I will listen to the points made, in the broadest of terms, and I suspect that I may agree with many of them.30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII thank my right hon. Friend for his expert cover for me. We discussed that subject in our handover, when he told me that there was no information that he could share because he…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII thank my hon. Friend for her questions. As she is aware, a public interest intervention notice has been issued in this case, which means that I am not able to speak to a number…30 Jan 2024HANSARDMedia BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I am glad that, as we finish the Bill’s passage through this House, it is with the same enthusiasm and cross-party support…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIAs the hon. Gentleman will be aware, a public notice has been issued on this matter. Ofcom will look expressly at accurate presentation of the news and free expression of opinion…30 Jan 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMII am grateful to my hon. Friend for tabling the urgent question for the second time in as many days. This is a media-focused day for me, as I will take the Media Bill through its…30 Jan 2024