§ Sir David SteelTo ask the Lord President of the Council if he will take steps(a) to arrange for the cable parliamentary channel to be available on the monitors in No. 1 Parliament street and (b) to remove from them the interruption caused by noises from the House of Lords annunciator.
§ Mr. MacGregorAs I said in reply to a question from the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) on 27 January(Official Report, columns 701-2), the 116W question of supplying Members' offices with the parliamentary cable channel (or the clean television feed direct from the Chamber) is to be discussed shortly by the Broadcasting Committee. If it approves the proposal in principle, the Committee will then wish to consider whether such facilities should be made available immediately to those parts of the parliamentary estate (such as No. 1 Parliament street) which are already suitably cabled, or whether it would be preferable to introduce the service for all Members, as far as practicable, simultaneously.
The provision on the monitors of information from the House of Lords annunciator service has been considered to be generally useful. Unfortunately, it would not be possible to suppress the information from individual monitors.