Future Of Regional Independent Television (EDM562)

Future Of Regional Independent Television

EDM number 562 in 2001-02, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 12/12/2001.

That this House notes the commercial pressure on ITV companies to merge in order to compete in the global telecommunications market; further notes the perception that such mergers are needed in order to sustain investment in quality UK based productions for domestic broadcast and for export, but recognises that with the loss of truly independent regional commercial television stations there could be a diminution of regional production across all genres; news, drama, sport, documentary, entertainment etc; and therefore calls upon Her Majesty's Government to ensure, through licensing or other regulation, that any ITV company, or companies, must maintain a permanent and regionally managed presence in each region with no diminution of regional news output or other regionally produced material.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Adrian Sanders	12/12/2001	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Nick Harvey	12/12/2001	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	12/12/2001	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Taylor	12/12/2001	Truro & St Austell	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Tyler	12/12/2001	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	12/12/2001	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Russell	13/12/2001	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Holmes	13/12/2001	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lynne Jones	13/12/2001	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	13/12/2001	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Baker	13/12/2001	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Angus Robertson	17/12/2001	Moray	Scottish National Party	Signed
Pete Wishart	17/12/2001	North Tayside	Scottish National Party	Signed
Mike Hancock	18/12/2001	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	18/12/2001	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Russell Brown	18/12/2001	Dumfries	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	18/12/2001	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	18/12/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Annabelle Ewing	19/12/2001	Perth	Scottish National Party	Signed
John Barrett	19/12/2001	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stunell	19/12/2001	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adam Price	15/01/2002	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Jim Cousins	18/01/2002	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Labour	Signed
Helen Clark	24/01/2002	Peterborough	Labour	Signed
Matthew Green	01/02/2002	Ludlow	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Jenkins	24/09/2002	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Iain Luke	24/09/2002	Dundee East	Labour	Signed
Mark Fisher	24/09/2002	Stoke-on-Trent Central	Labour	Signed
John Grogan	24/09/2002	Selby	Labour	Signed
Hugh Bayley	24/09/2002	York, City of	Labour	Signed
John Thurso	24/09/2002	Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Lepper	17/10/2002	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour Co-operative	Signed
David Hamilton	23/10/2002	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Tom Watson	04/11/2002	West Bromwich East	Labour	Signed

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