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ITV REGIONAL COMPANIES

Early day motion 856, tabled 14 June 2000 by Phil Woolas (Labour). Signed by 61 members.

That this House welcomes the report, The Impact of Granada on the North West, produced by Manchester Business School; recognises the importance of ITV regional companies to their regional economies through jobs, tourism and their supply chains; notes the threat to the regional structure of ITV that is posed by the potentially unbalanced consolidation of some ITV franchises to create a north-south divide; and urges Her Majesty's Government to ensure that any consolidation does not undermine ITV's regional structure by allowing the emergence of a united bloc of southern ITV licences.

Signatures by party: Labour 47, Conservative 5, Liberal Democrat 5, Labour/Co-operative 3, UUP 1.