Clause 1 - The Office of Communications
Office of Communications Bill [Lords]
10:15 am
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury, Conservative)
I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. My concern is the power that the Bill could give to the Secretary of State. The Government will almost determine what comes on to television screens. The regulation could be too tight, and political debate could be stifled; or it could be too liberal, in the sense that the three things that I do not like to see on the television screen—sex, violence and bad language—could be given free rein.