§ 40. Dr. Winstanleyasked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the number of further occasions on which members of local broadcasting councils have broadcast on political or industrial controversies and the fact that members of the boards of Independent Television Authority programme companies broadcast on such matters on British Broadcasting Corporation programmes, he will now amend Section 3 of the Television Act to enable members of these boards to broadcast on independent television programmes other than those emanating from their own companies.
§ Mr. StonehouseNo. Impartiality might be put in question if directors of the companies which together produce the programmes for the independent television service were free to use it to advocate their own views on matters of public controversy.