§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to meet the chairman of the IBA to discuss movements in the ownership of equity in companies which hold current independent television franchises.
§ Mr. MellorWe have frequent meetings with the chairman of the IBA, at which a wide range of broadcasting policy questions are discussed. But it is for the IBA, and not Government, to operate the ownership provisions in section 20 of the Broadcasting Act 1981.