Clause 340 — Modification of Disqualification Provisions

Part of Communications Bill – in the House of Commons at 8:45 pm on 14 July 2003.

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Photo of Tessa Jowell Tessa Jowell The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 8:45, 14 July 2003

That is an interesting question, but I think it must be a working assumption that a religious organisation seeking to acquire a broadcasting licence does so for a reason connected with the expression of a faith, although that might not occupy 24 hours of a day or, at any rate, all the broadcasting time available. Surely it is fair to assume that a religious organisation would wish to express its faith, and the character of that faith, through the broadcasting that it chose to schedule.