Independent Television Franchises

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1991.

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Photo of Sir Peter Lloyd Sir Peter Lloyd , Fareham 12:00, 4 July 1991

On the contrary, the process of tendering ensures that each contestant company has to show that it has the resources, the management skills and the capacity to produce the programmes that it says will be produced so as to cross the quality threshold. The system underpins what the hon. Gentleman wishes to ensure.