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HANSARD BBC FundingMy hon. Friend makes an important point. I want to see a thriving BBC that can compete internationally and is getting further income. There are lots of opportunities for the BBC…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingI am absolutely committed to ensuring that our creative industries continue to thrive and have set a very high ambition in that space. As I have said, I want to see the creative…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the BBC. The BBC is a great British institution and plays a vital role in our culture and creative…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s points. He mentioned many important parts of the BBC and other outlets. I am in favour of plurality of the media, so that we get a wide…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingI, too, am a defender of the BBC. It provides an outstanding service across the world. I am proud to have seen at first hand the fantastic job that it did for Eurovision, for the…07 Dec 2023HANSARD BBC FundingI think the shadow Secretary of State needs to live in the real world like the rest of us. People are struggling with the cost of living, and the Government have continued to take…07 Dec 2023HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Public Interest Intervention NoticeMy Department has written to the Barclay family and RedBird IMI, the current and proposed owners of Telegraph Media Group (TMG), to inform them of my decision to issue a Public…04 Dec 2023HANSARDIndependent Review of Women's FootballI wish to inform the House that the Government have today published their response to the recommendations made by the independent review of women’s football. Women’s football has…04 Dec 2023HANSARDLionesses Futures FundThe Government have today announced they are investing £25 million in 2024-25, complemented with £5 million of additional investment from the Football Association, to create a new…29 Nov 2023HANSARDTelegraph Media GroupMy Department has today written respectively to Lloyds Banking Group (via Bank of Scotland plc), the Barclay family and RedBird IMI—the current and proposed new owners of…22 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillThe hon. Gentleman is very knowledgeable on this point, and I am always grateful for his interventions. I am proud that, together with the Minister of State, my right hon. Friend…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillI was pleased to visit my hon. Friend’s constituency and to take part in a session on his local radio station. As he knows, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue. He will be aware that Alba is not in the same position as S4C because it is a programmer rather than a channel. In that…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this important point, because we want to ensure that everybody has access to television. That is why I made those comments in my…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillI am going to make some progress. I was talking about Channel 4, but it is not just Channel 4 that is going to benefit from this Bill. The Bill includes measures specific to S4C,…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillI beg to move, That the Bill be read a Second time. I am especially pleased to do so today, as it is World Television Day. The British media are world renowned. They inform and…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillWe are of course anxious to protect S4C. As it is a public service broadcaster, many of these provisions apply to S4C, which we strongly support.21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillAbsolutely. My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, because this Bill is all about protecting our public service broadcasters, whether that is the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 or…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillI was pleased to meet my right hon. Friend to discuss these important points, and I am very proud that this Bill will ensure greater access so that those with impairments can…21 Nov 2023HANSARD Media BillMy hon. Friend will know that this is a matter that the Government are considering—that is, the question of the licence fee. We have already started looking at the issue that…21 Nov 2023