LOCAL RADIO LICENCES

Early day motion 2669, tabled 31 January 2012 by David Morris (Conservative). Signed by 18 members.

That this House notes that the BBC Trust has encouraged the BBC management to re-think its restructuring plans for local radio; congratulates Lord Patten for his courage in opposing the changes; urges Ofcom to review local commercial radio given that the Guardian Media Group has recently made redundant many high quality news staff; further notes many of the so-called local radio stations are now in fact local transmitters for national radio shows, something that the now defunct Radio Authority would not have allowed; and calls on the Government to ensure that public sector and commercial private sector broadcasters keep the making of their programmes local as promised in their licence applications.

Signatures by party: Labour 8, DUP 3, Liberal Democrat 3, Conservative 2, Green 1, Independent 1.