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Ring-Fencing Funding For 10 Hours Weekly Of Gaelic Broadcasting In The BBC Royal Charter And Agreement

EDM number 385 in 2016-17, proposed by Brendan O'Hara on 05/09/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Broadcasting and Cultural heritage.

That this House notes that BBC ALBA, the Scottish Gaelic language television channel, reaches 74 per cent of the Scottish Gaelic audience 15 per cent of the national Scottish audience and has over 100,000 plays on BBC iPlayer every week; further notes that BBC ALBA is the first and only BBC broadcast service delivered in partnership; notes that BBC ALBA works with over 20 independent production companies, provides about half of all independently produced television hours in Scotland and supports at least 100 highly skilled jobs in the Highlands and Island of Scotland; notes that at present, the BBC is required by statute to provide 10 hours of programmes each week to Welsh-language channel S4C; notes that the level of funding to BBC ALBA restricts its output resulting in three in every four programmes aired being repeats; urges an increase in financial contribution to the channel to allow BBC ALBA to make more high quality and diverse Gaelic programmes, by ring-fencing funding for 10 hours of Gaelic broadcasting in the forthcoming Royal Charter and Agreement and enabling the BBC to fulfil its commitment to public service broadcasting; and further urges that such funding should be part of a consistent, supportive policy towards the UK’s minority languages.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Brendan O'Hara05/09/2016Argyll and ButeScottish National PartyProposed
Ian Blackford05/09/2016Ross, Skye and LochaberScottish National PartySeconded
John Nicolson05/09/2016East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySeconded
Alistair Carmichael05/09/2016Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSeconded
Angus MacNeil05/09/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySeconded
Peter Bottomley05/09/2016Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Michael Weir06/09/2016AngusScottish National PartySigned
Jonathan Edwards06/09/2016Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Monaghan06/09/2016Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySigned
Martyn Day06/09/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Chris Stephens06/09/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown07/09/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Patrick Grady07/09/2016Glasgow NorthScottish National PartySigned
Hywel Williams07/09/2016ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Alex Salmond07/09/2016Signed
Alison Thewliss07/09/2016Glasgow CentralScottish National PartySigned
Carol Monaghan08/09/2016Glasgow North WestScottish National PartySigned
Ian Murray08/09/2016Edinburgh SouthLabourSigned
Natalie McGarry08/09/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Deidre Brock08/09/2016Edinburgh North and LeithScottish National PartySigned
Chris Law12/09/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Marion Fellows15/09/2016Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Margaret Ferrier15/09/2016Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySigned
Gavin Newlands15/09/2016Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthScottish National PartySigned
Tasmina Sheikh10/10/2016Ochil and South PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Steven Paterson10/10/2016StirlingScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry10/10/2016Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Kelvin Hopkins10/10/2016Luton NorthLabourSigned
Owen Thompson10/10/2016MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Angela Crawley11/10/2016Lanark and Hamilton EastScottish National PartySigned

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