Future Of Regional Independent Television (EDM830)

Future Of Regional Independent Television

EDM number 830 in 2003-04, proposed by Frank Doran on 15/03/2004.

That this House places great value on the tradition of regional public service broadcasting in ITV, including the production of original programming across all genres made for the whole ITV network at regional centres throughout the UK; notes with great concern that, following the Granada/Carlton merger, there has been an increasing trend to centralisation of production in London and just one or two regional centres, as evidenced by redundancies and reorganisation at Meridian TV and by the recent announcement of 400 redundancies and studio closures at Carlton's Birmingham and Nottingham centres; believes that the continuation of this trend to centralisation is undesirable for the broadcasting system, for regional economies and most of all for viewers; and calls on ITV plc to reverse this trend, on Ofcom to apply with vigour the regulatory requirements in the Communications Act for significant regional production and on the Government to protect the regional programme making structure of independent television.

This motion has been signed by a total of 127 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Frank Doran	15/03/2004	Aberdeen Central	Labour	Proposed
Joan Ruddock	15/03/2004	Lewisham, Deptford	Labour	Signed
Austin Mitchell	15/03/2004	Great Grimsby	Labour	Signed
Kevin Brennan	15/03/2004	Cardiff West	Labour	Signed
Chris Bryant	15/03/2004	Rhondda	Labour	Signed
Derek Wyatt	15/03/2004	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
Richard Shepherd	16/03/2004	Aldridge-Brownhills	Conservative	Signed
Clare Short	16/03/2004	Birmingham, Ladywood	Labour	Signed
Paul Holmes	16/03/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Iddon	16/03/2004	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	16/03/2004	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	16/03/2004	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Helen Clark	16/03/2004	Peterborough	Labour	Signed
Brian H Donohoe	16/03/2004	Cunninghame South	Labour	Signed
Huw Edwards	16/03/2004	Monmouth	Labour	Signed
Paul Farrelly	16/03/2004	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Labour	Signed
Barbara Follett	16/03/2004	Stevenage	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	16/03/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	16/03/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Candy Atherton	16/03/2004	Falmouth & Camborne	Labour	Signed
Harry Barnes	16/03/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	16/03/2004	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Syd Rapson	17/03/2004	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Ernie Ross	17/03/2004	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Debra Shipley	17/03/2004	Stourbridge	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	17/03/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	17/03/2004	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Dai Havard	17/03/2004	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney	Labour	Signed
David Heyes	17/03/2004	Ashton-under-Lyne	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	17/03/2004	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	17/03/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	17/03/2004	Halifax	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	17/03/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	17/03/2004	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Laura Moffatt	17/03/2004	Crawley	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	17/03/2004	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	17/03/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Jim Cousins	17/03/2004	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Labour	Signed
Win Griffiths	17/03/2004	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
Peter Atkinson	17/03/2004	Hexham	Conservative	Signed
Clive Betts	17/03/2004	Sheffield, Attercliffe	Labour	Signed
Paul Tyler	17/03/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	17/03/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	18/03/2004	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	18/03/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	18/03/2004	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	18/03/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Keen	18/03/2004	Feltham & Heston	Labour Co-operative	Signed
John Mann	18/03/2004	Bassetlaw	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	18/03/2004	Burton	Labour	Signed
Richard Allan	18/03/2004	Sheffield, Hallam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Joe Benton	18/03/2004	Bootle	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	18/03/2004	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Martin Smyth	22/03/2004	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	22/03/2004	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Jon Owen Jones	22/03/2004	Cardiff Central	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Tony Lloyd	22/03/2004	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
John McWilliam	22/03/2004	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Paul Burstow	22/03/2004	Sutton & Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tony Colman	22/03/2004	Putney	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	22/03/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Sue Doughty	22/03/2004	Guildford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	22/03/2004	Crewe & Nantwich	Labour	Signed
Angela Eagle	22/03/2004	Wallasey	Labour	Signed
Hywel Francis	22/03/2004	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
Hugh Bayley	22/03/2004	York, City of	Labour	Signed
Julie Morgan	23/03/2004	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Colin Pickthall	23/03/2004	West Lancashire	Labour	Signed
Peter Pike	23/03/2004	Burnley	Labour	Signed
Gordon Prentice	23/03/2004	Pendle	Labour	Signed
Phil Sawford	23/03/2004	Kettering	Labour	Signed
John Lyons	23/03/2004	Strathkelvin & Bearsden	Labour	Signed
Judy Mallaber	23/03/2004	Amber Valley	Labour	Signed
Rob Marris	23/03/2004	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
Diana Organ	23/03/2004	Forest of Dean	Labour	Signed
Keith Bradley	23/03/2004	Manchester, Withington	Labour	Signed
Patsy Calton	23/03/2004	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Dobbin	23/03/2004	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Janet Anderson	23/03/2004	Rossendale & Darwen	Labour	Signed
Norman Baker	23/03/2004	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Beith	23/03/2004	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Liz Blackman	23/03/2004	Erewash	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	23/03/2004	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Taylor	23/03/2004	Solihull	Conservative	Signed
Ken Purchase	24/03/2004	Wolverhampton North East	Labour/Co-operative	Signed
Peter Robinson	24/03/2004	Belfast East	DUP	Signed
Mark Lazarowicz	24/03/2004	Edinburgh North & Leith	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Martin O'Neill	24/03/2004	Ochil	Labour	Signed
Sandra Osborne	24/03/2004	Ayr	Labour	Signed
Claire Curtis-Thomas	24/03/2004	Crosby	Labour	Signed
David Drew	24/03/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Anne Begg	24/03/2004	Aberdeen South	Labour	Signed
Simon Thomas	24/03/2004	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Tony Wright	24/03/2004	Cannock Chase	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	25/03/2004	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Jim Dowd	25/03/2004	Lewisham West	Labour	Signed
David Hamilton	25/03/2004	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Paddy Tipping	25/03/2004	Sherwood	Labour	Signed
Andy King	26/03/2004	Rugby & Kenilworth	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	26/03/2004	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Sandra Gidley	26/03/2004	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lady Hermon	29/03/2004	North Down	UUP	Signed
John McFall	29/03/2004	Dumbarton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Jeff Ennis	29/03/2004	Barnsley East & Mexborough	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	29/03/2004	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Llew Smith	30/03/2004	Blaenau Gwent	Labour	Signed
Mark Todd	30/03/2004	South Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	30/03/2004	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
George Galloway	31/03/2004	Glasgow, Kelvin	Independent	Signed
Jonathan R Shaw	19/04/2004	Chatham & Aylesford	Labour	Signed
Michael Moore	19/04/2004	Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Cox	19/04/2004	Tooting	Labour	Signed
Roger Godsiff	19/04/2004	Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Jim Cunningham	20/04/2004	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Kerry Pollard	21/04/2004	St Albans	Labour	Signed
Valerie Davey	21/04/2004	Bristol West	Labour	Signed
John Robertson	23/04/2004	Glasgow, Anniesland	Labour	Signed
Gavin Strang	23/04/2004	Edinburgh East & Musselburgh	Labour	Signed
Caroline Spelman	27/04/2004	Meriden	Conservative	Signed
Annette Brooke	29/04/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kevin Barron	29/04/2004	Rother Valley	Labour	Signed
Si	10/05/2004	Birmingham, Erdington	Labour	Signed
Chris Ruane	14/05/2004	Vale of Clwyd	Labour	Signed
Sarah Teather	07/06/2004	Brent East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	09/06/2004	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	25/10/2004	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harold Best	27/10/2004	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed

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