Conflicts Of Interest At The BBC Broadcasting Council For Wales

EDM number 1571 in 1993-94, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 21/07/1994.

That this House calls for the resignation from the BBC Board of Governors of Dr Gwyn Jones, National Governor for Wales, and likewise the resignation from the BBC Broadcasting Council for Wales of the same Dr Jones and Mr Tony Roberts and any other Council members with an undeclared personal interest, who took part in the unwarranted attack during the June 1994 monthly meeting of the Council led by Dr Jones, the Chairman until June 1993 of the Welsh Development Agency and Mr Roberts, Chief Executive of the Cynon Valley Borough Council, on the 31st May BBC Wales `Week In Week Out' current affairs programme which investigated the irregularities in the assembly of land at Gadlys Road, Aberdare, by the Agency, with assistance from the Borough Council for Tesco Stores plc, of which Dr Jones is a non-executive director; calls on the Department of National Heritage to bring in new codes of conduct covering personal conflicts of interest for those involved in governing the BBC, both at United Kingdom and Wales levels, to prevent any recurrence of this abuse of position of those who attacked the programme's content, without any declaration of interest in such an outrageous manner as was predicted by members of the Broadcasting Council for Wales on 20th December 1991 when Dr Jones was first appointed Chairman of it.

This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.