Channel Four Funding

EDM number 1344 in 1993-94, proposed by Anthony Coombs on 17/06/1994.

That this House congratulates Channel 4 on achieving an 11 per cent. audience share in 1993, which was higher than BBC 2's, whilst maintaining the remit, and on increasing advertising revenues by 35 per cent. in its first year of selling its airtime in competition with ITV; notes that through the funding formula in the 1990 Broadcasting Act Channel 4 has to pay ú38 million to ITV in respect of 1993 and is projected to pay up to ú500 million to ITV over the 10 year licence period; notes that the ITV companies projected no more than ú100 million to income from Channel 4 over their licence period and that that expectation will already have been met by 1995; notes the recent ITV companies have cut their programme investment against a background of rising profitability; believes that it is perverse for Channel 4 to subsidize its more commercial competitor which has almost three times as much to spend on programmes; notes that independent sources, such as the Henley Centre, do not believe Channel 4 will at any time have to call upon the Government to introduce proposals to abolish the Channel 4 funding formula so as to strengthen the Channel's ability to carry out its remit, to invest in more original drama, children's programmes and British films such as The Crying Game and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Anthony Coombs	17/06/1994	Wyre Forest		Proposed
Geoff Hoon	17/06/1994	Ashfield		Signed
Glenda Jackson	17/06/1994	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Robert Maclennan	17/06/1994	Caithness and Sutherland		Signed
Keith Hampson	17/06/1994	Leeds North West		Signed
Norman Godman	20/06/1994	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Jim Dowd	20/06/1994	Lewisham West		Signed
John Cummings	20/06/1994	Easington		Signed
Keith Bradley	20/06/1994	Manchester, Withington		Signed
William McKelvey	20/06/1994	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	20/06/1994	Dundee East		Signed
Alan Howarth	20/06/1994	Stratford-on-Avon		Signed
Ernie Ross	20/06/1994	Dundee West		Signed
Paul Tyler	21/06/1994	North Cornwall		Signed
Paddy Tipping	21/06/1994	Sherwood		Signed
Hugh Bayley	21/06/1994	York, City of		Signed
John Evans	21/06/1994	St Helens North		Signed
James Couchman	21/06/1994	Gillingham		Signed
Alex Carlile	21/06/1994	Montgomery		Signed
David Knox	21/06/1994	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Peter Hardy	21/06/1994	Wentworth		Signed
John Battle	22/06/1994	Leeds West		Signed
Richard Burden	22/06/1994	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Ken Livingstone	22/06/1994	Brent East		Signed
Lynne Jones	22/06/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
John Hutton	22/06/1994	Barrow & Furness		Signed
John Home Robertson	22/06/1994	East Lothian		Signed
John Heppell	22/06/1994	Nottingham East		Signed
Clive Soley	22/06/1994	Hammersmith		Signed
Neil Gerrard	23/06/1994	Walthamstow		Signed
Tom Cox	23/06/1994	Tooting		Signed
David Clelland	23/06/1994	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Simon Hughes	27/06/1994	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
James Callaghan	27/06/1994	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	28/06/1994	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Michael Fabricant	28/06/1994	Staffordshire Mid		Signed
Anthony Grant	29/06/1994	Cambridge South West		Signed
Martyn Jones	29/06/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Kate Hoey	29/06/1994	Vauxhall		Signed
Kim Howells	30/06/1994	Pontypridd		Signed
Dennis Turner	30/06/1994	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Audrey Wise	30/06/1994	Preston		Signed
Diane Abbott	04/07/1994	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
Hugh Dykes	04/07/1994	Harrow East		Signed
Toby Jessel	04/07/1994	Twickenham		Signed
John Maxton	05/07/1994	Glasgow, Cathcart		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	07/07/1994	Workington		Signed
Mike Gapes	20/07/1994	Ilford South		Signed
John Gunnell	20/07/1994	Leeds South and Morley		Signed

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