Part of First Minister's Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament at 12:00 pm on 13 September 2007.
I will certainly work with all colleagues to protect news services in Scotland. When we established the Scottish Broadcasting Commission under the chairmanship of Blair Jenkins recently, much of the comment about why such a commission was necessary was directed to services that are provided by the BBC. In fact, as Jeremy Purvis rightly identified, there are also threats and dangers to services in the commercial sector. I encourage him to make representations—rather than just joining with Westminster colleagues—to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission, which will be hugely influential in addressing a major concern that runs right through Scotland at present.