BBC (Proposed Cuts)

Part of Backbench Business – in the House of Commons at 1:39 pm on 1 December 2011.

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Photo of Tom Blenkinsop Tom Blenkinsop Opposition Whip (Commons) 1:39, 1 December 2011

I second my hon. Friend’s support for Ali Brownlee. I also pay tribute to Mark Drury, another member of the BBC Tees sport team. However, given the record-setting losing form of Hartlepool this season, I should have thought that my hon. Friend would be much more appreciative of the station’s coverage of Middlesbrough and, indeed, Guisborough Town football clubs.

May I now strike a serious note, and ask my hon. Friend whether it is not rather dangerous that northern BBC stations such as BBC Tees are being subjected to cuts of more than 20% while their southern counterparts are being subjected to cuts in single figures?