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Horse Racing And The BBC

EDM number 213 in 2008-09, proposed by Laurence Robertson on 09/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Broadcasting and Sports.

That this House regrets the proposals being discussed by the BBC to reduce the number of days of British horse racing it intends to cover from the present level of 27 days per year to just 13 days by 2010; notes that 10 years ago the BBC covered 79 days of horse racing each year; regrets that the new total will include just three days of national hunt racing and will include no racing coverage between the months of October and April; reminds the BBC that racing is the second biggest spectator sport in the UK; and therefore calls on the BBC, as a major sporting channel, to ensure that racing fans continue to see a significant amount of racing on BBC channels.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Laurence Robertson09/12/2008TewkesburyConservativeProposed
Tobias Ellwood09/12/2008Bournemouth EastConservativeSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Nigel Evans10/12/2008Ribble ValleyConservativeSeconded
Nicholas Winterton10/12/2008MacclesfieldConservativeSeconded
Ronnie Campbell10/12/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Jeremy Hunt10/12/2008South West SurreyConservativeSigned
Philip Davies10/12/2008ShipleyConservativeSigned
Richard Benyon10/12/2008NewburyConservativeSigned
Peter Atkinson10/12/2008HexhamConservativeSigned
David Drew10/12/2008StroudLabourSigned
James Paice10/12/2008South East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Nicholas Soames10/12/2008Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Neil Gerrard11/12/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
James Gray11/12/2008North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Michael Penning11/12/2008Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Jim Devine11/12/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
John McDonnell15/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alan Meale15/12/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Harry Cohen15/12/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
John Greenway15/12/2008RyedaleConservativeSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Malcolm Moss26/01/2009North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned

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