Television (Highlands and Islands)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 February 1991.

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Photo of Margaret Ewing Margaret Ewing , Moray 12:00, 7 February 1991

Although we all welcome the moratorium that the Home Secretary announced on 28 January, not least those of us who represent constituencies covered by the effective Grampian Television, what procedures will the Home Secretary bring into force to ensure that during the moratorium there will be a clear analysis of the position? It will be small compensation to have a short–term moratorium if, later, Grampian Television and other regional programmes are taken over by a predator with no interest in the area.